THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY,
JANUARY
1935.
EUROPE'S QUEER CORNERS
REPUBLIC OF RUTHENIA
BEAUTIFUL. COUNTRY
FROM A CORRESPON- DENT
Europe has omne queer corners, such as cannot be seen from the windows of a Wagon Lit nor through the windscreen of sprod. ing motor-car. Some of the queer est are those pockets in the great mountain ranges, where the tide of half forgotten Invasions either 'If it did, nover penetrated, or, receded, leaving behind communities of primitive people, like pools on a rocky beach. They are unruffled.by the tourist and unharassed by the clarabanc. To them a. visitor is an object of curiosity not unmixed with fear, and of unfailing kindness
and courtesy.
ly, if not fiercely, national, and has its full complement of Ministers and administrators, who are pro perly cautious In governing its- wild highlanders, but exerciso a temperate and tolerant authority over the milder people of the valleys. The Government is toler ent Indeed. T. found, a fow miles from Uzhorod, the capital, a per- manent gypsy settlement, equipped with a school whore Romany is taught. I also found a castle where' the chatelaine was a countrywoman of my own, who had exchanged the hills of Argyllshire, for the 'Car- pathians 60 years before, and had not spoken to one from her own country for 30 years.
PLACE OF BEAUTY
The day after my arrival the motor-car duly appeared, together with a guide who put my French to ahame. But it needed no guide to explain the beauty of the country. We traversed it from end to end, through a succession of hamleta, where the houses clustered on the. banks of mountain torrents round pagoda-like churches roofed with. wooden slates wonthored to a silver grey.
In the remoter villages high up in the mountains, which aro reached by ropds where the car seemed to leap from boulder to boulder, the houses are stockaded
Such was my own experience in Ruthenin. I arrived at a real rail- way station. in a real town of large buildings and cobbled streetsround with tall slabs of wood to
The dress of the Maharajah of Bhutan is somewhat unorthodox, hav- ing a tinge of the European. His wile prafers European shoen
Some of the grant iron works of the Sear to be returned to Germany shortly.
GOELET'S TREASURES
SALE OF FAMOUS MANUSCRIPTS
HALF GREAT LIBRARY
Mr. Goelet's Intent these many water-colour drawings. by Hablot years, now standa sin one of the K. Browno ("Phiz") illustrating last of the great American libraries most of Dickens's Important novels, of the nineteenth century available purchased at the sale of the library
of Frederick W. Cosens. to the collector to-day.
'The Goclet Hbrary was started in
The first editions of English and
n small way in 1886, and continued American authors were collected be- keep out wolves and bears the
for 20 years. Its outstanding tween 1986 and 1890. winter. The land is full of colour.
features are the Americana; the The selection to be sold in Jan- The houses are painted with a
Cruikshank, Dickens, and Thack-uary, catalogued in 400 lots, com wash of pale blue, and round the
eray collections of original draw prises about half the library and doors and windows are stencillings
ings, books, and autographs; and the remaining portion will be sold of brilliant greens, blues, and reds. Over the walls the pepper plant
the first editions of English and later in the erason. American authors of the last cen- An outstanding item of the riota in profusion. The people not
Americana is the original manu- only have a national dress but also The first part of the well-known (tury.
Much of the Americana, the script of General Benedict Arnold's wear it. It is a full-sleeved whiterary formed by the late Mr. blouse, like the top half of a Ogden Goelet is to be sold shortly assembling of which was begun in "Expedition to Quebec in 1776," Bishop's surplice, decorated with at the American Art Association's 1875, was purchased at the public describing an American army's exquisite embroidery in geometric Galleries, New York, by order of enles of the libraries of Almon W. herole and tragle struggle through Griswold, William Menzies, George the wilderness, a document left by designu, exactly like the border of his son, Mr. Robert Goelet. & Persian rug. These strips of Mr. Ogden Goelet, who was born Brinley, Dr. Edmund B, O'Callag-General Arnold at West Point when embroidery are peculiar to the in New York in 1846, died on board han. the Hon. 11. C. Murphy, he fled to the British; there is, too, country-they are not exported-his yacht, the Mayflower, in 1897. Samuel L. M. Barlow, and others, the Murphy set of the Jesuit Rela- The Cruikshank collection was tions, comprising 42 original edi- and so are the great double bags of The Mayflower was Inter sold to
cloth which every person the United States Government and begun as early as 1872, and a few tins of the annual reports sent by Avears flung over the left shoulder, subauently became the Presiden-years later an attempt was made to the missionaries in New France to obtain all the prints described in the Hend Provincial of the Jesuit generally with a baby in the rear tlal yacht.
Like many other New York Reid's ratalogue, the measure of Society in France from 1632 to pouch, and some domestic animal or produce in the front pouch. The families, the Goelets are of Hugue-success of which ambitious project 1672; and the manuscript diary of people are shy but lively. I pointed not descent, and have been estab-can be seen in the wonderful array Baron Cromot-du-Bourg, alde-de- my camera at a woman washing lished in New York for over 250 of that artist's work represented in camp of Count Rochambers, writ the library. The Dickens und ten during active participation clothes in a mountain stream, with years. her baby lying beside her. In a
Mr. Goelet was one of the great Thackeray collections, which in-under the latter's command in the flash she leaped up, acized her child, collectors of his time. Most of theclude many original drawings and campaign which culminated in the and bolted into her house. The important libraries formed by bis jautograph letters, were begun about elege and surrender of York Town, schoolmaster who was showing me contemporaries have long since the same time, the former being illustrated with 12 maps and plans round the village followed and been dispersed or found permanent considerably enhanced in 1890 by and a water-colour view of New- soothed her, and in a few minutes homes in public institutions, and the addition of a series of original port.
woven
she was changed into her best Sun- day dress, a little sheepskin jacket all glorious with colour, and a new apron of woven scarlet and green threads. But she would not bring'
was met by a young man in a sky-out the baby. blue uniform and full of phrases In stilted English: He explained `stp me that the Presidential, motor-ear was otherwise engaged, though It
.
The end of our journey was a visit to my guide's relations in a Fillage on the Rumanian frontier.
would be put inter at my disposal.There is only one living room in the Meanwhile, He had provided for my luggage a fine bullock-eart, drawn. by two enormous white benata, and capable of carrying the household My furniture of Louise XIV. small and shabby suitcase was put into it with a ceremony suitable for crown jewels.
Ruthenia is a self-governing pro-, vince of Czechoslovakin. It actually asked to join that State because in the turbulent scan of post-War Europe some flag. had to be flown by any ship which did not wish to be pirated. But it claims to be the first permanent home in Europe of the Russian race and to speak the Russian tongue in its oldest and purest form. It is therefore proud-
Ruthenian house, and if the family is large some members of it have to sleep on the dining benches. If there is a guest, who does not know that he or she is expected to go to bed first and in public, the evening la apt to be prolonged, and my live- liest recollection of that night is wondering for hours whether it would be possible to faint in order to be taken to bed without em. barrassment. Finally I took my courage and my pryjamas in both hands, and the hint was taken as a matter of course, I hope that I behaved properly and left the Ruthenian opinion of Scotland un- case, let me impaired. In any
assure my kind hosts that the Scottish opinion of Ruthenin is that she is us lovely and her people as" fine as any to be found north of the Tweed.
The funeral for Sergal Kiror, assassinatuď member of the high council of the Soviet party and one of Joseph Stalin's chief lieutenants, was the most Impressive since the revolution. Here are pictured high Soviet officials in Red Square, Moscow, marching behind Kirov's casket, Stalin in the centre with V. M. Molotr and K. E. Voresbilor close, buside-him.
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