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however, brings most scholars there nowadays. Before that it was constitutional history, and before that the biographical his- tory of a hundred years ago.
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CROCKERY QUEST
lost to sight in the international The L. M. S. Railway in Britain crisis, but both Parliament and is experimenting to find a type the public will hear more about of cup and saucer that will re-them in the near future, and this duce the number of these articles conference will begin the work amounting to about half a of foreing public attention to the million lost by the mpany reports.
every year. One does not know
exactly how they are lost; but,
setting aside that proverbial slip,
which will account for most of Falstaffs At Yarmouth them, one can see various hazards to be guarded against.
It is not to be imagined that Yarmouth, where Sir John the irritation of passengers who Simon is seeking a new seat at have missed a train ever leads the next election, has memories them to deal with their cups as of another Sir John of very differ
For the ancient‹ Sir Richard Grenville in a temperent renown. is said to have dealt with his fishing town was the home of the drinking glasses, and to masti-Falstaffs and birthplace, pre- cate them; but it is conceivable sumably, of Shakespeare's im- that such a storm-in-a-teacup mortal Old Jack. A Fastolfe, or might result in the wreck of a Falstaff, was Bailiff of Yarmouth vessel or two. It is possible also in 1281, and from time to time that an opposite emotion has-in-members of the family held high duced other travellers to retain municipal offices and represented their cups as "souvenirs" of the town in Parliament.
John Fastolfe, a man of very friendly buffets.
The perfect cup and saucer considerable local account, pur- must, therefore, be unbreakable chased lands at Caistor at the and untakeable, which seems to close of the fourteenth century require the inventive ability of and became father of Sir John the White Knight or perhaps Fastolfe, who, after a all that is needed is the lesson of his example, which is for each traveller to carry his own.
History's Doorstep
distin- career," was
guished military luckless enough to have his name -but seemingly none of his other characteristics borrowed by Shakespeare for his dubious hero. In Yarmouth they still remember the original Sir John as a gen- erous benefactor of the great parish church of St. Nicholas.
The Record Office, in Chancery Lane, recently celebrated its centenary. It may well he an- other hundred years before all its Whereabouts Of Prague
documents have been read. A single worker, it is sald, would take three hundred years to If there is one advantage about as international political crises, it is peruse all the legal records yet unread belonging to one that in the course of people's comparatively small class. The shivers and thrills they do learn 1848 and it is not finished. So sometimes a little history, nearly the sorting of judicial writs be- always a little geography. Mr. gan in office may still hold some Chamberlain recently featured a people about secrets for later historians to the Czechs as find. Probably the most famous whom most of us knew little or document found there in recent nothing, but the later improve- years was a papal indulgence of ment in general knowledge of 1476 the earliest known exam- Czecho-Slovak geography is prob- ably great and permanent. Im- ple of Caxton's printing.
That was found in 1928. In provement was needed, for many 1925 the American professor did not seem to know even where that hundred- Leslie Hutson discovered there Prague was the inquest on Christopher Mar- towered, golden Prague" which lowe, which confirmed the legend was the boast of O'd Bohemia. about Marlowe's death in a It was possible for the poet (W. drunken brawl. The Americans J. Prowse) to write many years who
go to
ago a verse which was an under- the office
and
do statement of the facts: many Americans go there --- are mostly pro- Though ita longitude's rather un-
certain, fessors of literature. Their in- vestigations among its papers have added much to the alender biographical Knowledge of Shake- speare. Administrative, history,
And its latitude also is vague, The person I pity, who knows not
the city,
The beautiful city of Prague.