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STRAND'S ANNIVERSARY, Hesetient congratulations have been pr tended to Mr. H. Greenhough Smith, on the completion of 34 years as Editor of Magazine. The nauiversary The Strand
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does only us of the achievements it serve to of Mr. Greenhough Smith himself, but of the great nagazine history also of the which, since it was started in January 1801, has remained the foremost among Puncations of its kind:
"The Strand aroused world-wide in- terest when it first appeared." Mr. Green- hough Smith said in an interview
"It took Si (then Mr.) George Newnes, Naffour months myself,
It the Arst number. produca
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The subject of pew-rents recently engaged the attention of church-goers in the Colony-incidentally St. Andrew's, Kowloon, abolished them last year. In this connection the following article frem the London Daily Telegraph way be of interest: The Church Assembly has been advised by a committee of inquiry that the system of pew reata is dying a natural death. Nothing is here, the mittee add," for tears The renting of pews, they have decided, is liable to militate against that sense, of brother hood, uninduenced by class or station. to which ought to prevail in every Christian was
When or how pew-reat- magazine. congregation. ing began the committee have not dislook back upon some early numbers The covered More than five hundred years novelty of such a series as the 'Portraits ago, in Wycliffe's time, there were cer of Celebrities at Different Times of Their We Lives appealed greatly to the public, tainly pews in English churches. have evidence of pews assigned to parti- because portraits of celebrities were then There were no pic cular persons in the fifteenth century. comparatively rare, The committee pronounce that pews came ture-past-cards, and a photograph of a into general use and the practice of popular statesman, author, or actor usual- The seventh number marked a very appropriation began in the sixteenthly coat a couple of shillings. They have found records of it at Lam-important occasion, for in it appeared a beth in Quesa Mary's reign. About the character which to-day is the best-known same time, we may note, the church in fiction Sherlock Holmes wardena of Ludlow received és Bd. for new. But it was much later that the
"The tale of the famous men who had full pomp and ceremony of the family
their first or early work published in pew and the squire's pow developed.
We The Strand is an extensive one. Some of us can still remember such published the greater number of Mr. H. Mrs. Gaskell described, large. Wells's short stories, among other work and square," lined with green baize, of his. This
Perry as
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But how many now remember the year. We encouraged W. H. Jacobs by publish pew, a very tabernacle canopied,
cclient stories-bis Strand in 1898. appeared in curtained, with a table and tke a fire. place of its own, in which, shrouded from was in the same year that Mr. H. G. the eyes of common Christians, the aquire] Wells's first contribution to The Strand "EQUITABLE EASTERN BANKING
Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation-appeared.. assisted at public worship? Uur gene-
greatest made The ration hardly needs to be told that a man. Wadehouse, one of the should not put up a coronat over his pew, humorous writers living. The south is is the Church Assembly Strand the vehicle for his early work. of its most popular committee faithfully report, that in these and he is still one days the private new and the few rent contributors
The Lacquer Cabinet, by Horace are mostly maintained in the districts Aarsley Vachell, published 14. years ago, where distinctious of class are least vis introduced to the public acotber character ible. No more than some 10 or 11 per who is now famous-Quinnes for the
the cent. of English churches lery pew rents author extended story into a novel the dioceses in which the system still and then introduces the thero to the public. Among other maintains itself are those which contain Theatre-going
in Man- famous authors who contributed are
have a large industrial population.
more than one Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Hall Caine, uhester and Liverpoo! third of the churches are pew-rented." Mr. A. E. W. Mason, Air. W. B. Maxwell, The committee, reporting that the ap- Mr. John Galsworthy, Mr. Joseph Conrad, propriation of seats, even without pay nud many others. ment. is felt to be neither democratic nor Christian," frankly admit that in these Northern dioceses where, if anywhere, discrimination between class and class would be fiercely, resented, the pey-rent system is popular.
and Christian
PROPHECIES FULFILLED.
Propheta "wrote for The Strain in earlier days-and may still for all we know! Thus in 191 Mr. Clande (rahame White wrote an article on The Aerial Mentee: Why There is Danger
One of
the in England's Apathy in
aeroplanes Then, in illustrations showed a fleet of
Conan Doyle dropping bombs on London.
story Danger. wrote hiir Arthur forecasting the submarine blockade o our coust. Then, 100: in a story from MT. Wells's pen, published in December, 150%, and entitled The Land Ironclads. a vivid picture was drawn of a new The descrip-
We cannot think that the question can be usefully argued by the application of general principles as to what is desno. surely lawful, the point plant. It is ther it is expedient. Two hundred and Sfty churches in Lancashire, two bundred in London and Southwark and it so, In Nonconformist churches it is general. The reason is not that these congregations weapon Sf offence in war.
JUDGE OF FICTION.
He is
ar lesa sensitive, but that to the conston and the accompanying illustrations ditions of their church life the system is by the artist depicted almost exactly the more convenient than any other. Chur- tanks which were used on the Seld of ches with small endowments or now battle later on # dowments at all, as a Liverpool incum bent has been-pointing out, feel the need
Ar. Greenbough Smith does not care to of pe renta. The Church Assembly
But it will committed allow that in a congregation speak much about himself. sa boinogeneous as to show no great dif laterest readers to know some facts coa graduate of Cam cerning him. Terence in wealth or status the system bridge-his college was St. John's and sutor. bas small possibilities of harm. No before taking up journalism was a doubt they are right to emphasise the and then joined the staff of Temple Bar strength of the modern feeling, that all He has been responsible for the discovery
other. wats a church should be free. But of more humorists than any
be the the regular church-goer will still be apt, and he is also acknowledged to resort to the same seat, and to look, nest judge of Betion in Britain, He is such is human nature, not altogether a noted wit. a,keen mathematician and chces-player, and he has written many benignly upon anyone who takes it.
short stories and essays as well as his When people go to church as a family well-known historical essays published un which is still the common way with rder the title of "The Romance of Hia gular church goers, the tendency to estab-tory. lish a claim on certain seats is still stronger. We may feel that contribu tions to the funds of the church should not be complicated with any conditions about a right to a pew. But, after all, the renters claim is not often, insisted upon churlishly, zad no conceivable system of church organisation will serve well unless it is worked in a kindly spirit-D.T., Feb. 7th
WOMEN IN SPORT.
Is BOAT RACING HARMFUL? By refusing to sanction buat-racing by women students, the Senate of the University College of North Wales at Baugor have raised the question of what sports are suitable for women without danger of injury.
The senate holds that boat racings likely to subject women to undue strair, although it places no próhibition en ordinary rowing.
LONDON PLACE-NAMES. What's in a place-name! Why is Los don not called Lunchester or Lumbury, as it ought to be? The English Place Nume society is studying problems of this kind.
Who would anspect that Wembley was the Tea where Wamba the Saxon pastured his flocks, or that the same Fleet-street is more than 600 years old? Hatumer- smith has nothing to do with borse-shoes, but was the mouth of a small stream; the
is unknown, hatemer
but meating of. it may have been the unpic of the stream. Cinnnersbury was the residence of the Lady Gunhild Bloomsbury helonged to Bleomund of Totenhale (Tottenham Court) is A.D. 1902.
At Earl's Court lived the Earls of Oxford who held the manor of Kensing ton in Queen Elizabeth's reigu. Harrow Hill was the site of a pagan teruple for which the Saxon word was hearh."
Appearances, however, are not always deceptive. Chiswick really is derived from
cheese, produced in the wie or dairy- The Women's Amateur Athletic Asso farm there by the Thames meadows, where ciation, on the other hand, contends that the cattle hrawsed. Mayfair is the place there are only two sports which women where a fair was held in May for 21 years should not take part in-the, tug-of-war | (1898-1709). and football. . ·
Bayswater was the watering-place of But who now "There is, so far as we can see," said Baynard 500 years ago,
"pleasant Major W. B. Marcbant, founder of the could call Bathnal Green n Women's Athletic Association, "no res-nook or corner "The first part was once bliths." but it may also have been a Bon whatever why women should not
row and even race, providing they are man's name." physically fit and properly trained. Fit-
י,
These explanations are based upon the ness and training are the secret of the oldest recorded spellings, used when the whole matter, and if these are right then names were new, and had (as all names. women will suffer no harm in boat-rac-once had) a ing."
living meaning. Obviously that is the only way to find out their The woman superintendent of the original sense. In A.D. 2124 the site of Borough Polytechnic, S.E., said that she the Marble Arch will probably be spelt Ma Biarch, and some guesser may say it had not found rowing harmful to women
was so called after an old woman who and girls. On the other hand, she was sold oranges there during the First Great sure it had improved them physically in
War. every way.
vely told that So today we are gravely
· Officials connected with the Women's Charing Cross was erected by King Ed- Amateur Rowing Association declared ward in memory of his dear queen that rowing is an excellent, sport and (uhéri reïne); though it was called pastime, providing a woman does not curringe long before the Norman Con- attempt too much,
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