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BYRON'S HONEY-

MOON.

A STORY OF HALNABY

"HALL.

(By Oliver Brackett.)

There is still standing in the North of England a house. Halhabý all a few miles from Darlington,

(Ry J. C. Squiro.) The House of Commons put up": a fair show when it was invited to reject the Waterloo Bridge clause in the L.C.C. Bill The defenders |

which was for a short time int of the bridge were beaten only by

With Byron, a three to two majority. Tho A very high testimonial to mately associated Government remained neutrul

the great abilities of Mr. This was the house where the post Rennie, the architect,

spent his honeymoon. Little atten- i feeling, no doubt. that any ex-

"This noble structure," con- tion seems to have, been paid to it pressed Government sympathy

cluded "The Times,"

b his biographers, but it remains A to with the old bridge would imply a

So is the favour-

"Lo day, Inalde and outside, almost) willingness to subscribe to the go." able

fhaltered, and display of Somerset

la not lacking in Charing Cross Bridge, which all

romantle associations, parties, in the back of their House. So is the fount of those

The house itself is an imposing minds, know to be ultimately in civic dreams, And so is the "per- eritable, but the cost of which all petual" memorial of the great red brick structure of the seven- parties prefer to leave to their Duke's wars,, and the eminent teenth century, children. Rather than face it, troops who died in them or sur-block and side-wings crowned withi

,a balustrade, and having tall sash Waterloo Bridge is to be sacri-vived them.

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with a central

feed. A new bridge at Waterloo, For if all things puss, in car windows of the type associated with will look like an attempt to do civilisation the best things seem the later Renaissance in England, On one face projects a atone perch something and solve something to be in most constant peril But there is no real conviction in hundred years honce, when they in two storeys, a feature suggestive of the period of Elizabeth or James the pretence that it wil, or pussi- are pulling down the 'Cenotaph as bly can relieve traffic congestion. an obstacie to traffic, it is quite and giving the impression that kely thus Charing Cross Station the building with its transitional If the new big bridge is used up will still be where it is, and that character may have been the work to elpacity.' the Strand con- gestion will be worse than ever: the vile girders of Hungerford f Inigo Jones or his pupil Webb. And the a rash assertion that Bridge will still gent over the The interior shows signs of having towards the the existing bridge, is beyond re-reach which was once so majestien re-decorated novation cannot be maintained cally spanned by Rennie's master-middle of the eighteenth century. One roont originally the hall, and against the weight of expert cpin- piece,

now used as the dining-roopy is 10940 Claborately ernamented on walls and ceiling with relief de- eration in the Freneli style which became fashionable about this date. Much of the furniture, which in- cludes a pair of extravaging glit iTerors in the Chinese-Chippendale style, can be assigned to this period. Nevertheless, all the interior na it Aunds to-day remains almost un- inltered since the time of Byron's

visit.

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The bridge, which Lord Craw- ford eently described as the finest bridge built in the last 800 years. is to get and with the cer- tainty that a generation hence we shall all Be stigmatiseil as Sandals for letting it go. Reflerting Open the absurd irony of the situation. I suddenly thought of "looking What was said about the up bridge at the time of its opening in 1817. I would provide an ap-

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Months before the bridge was upened "The Times" was nouncing the preparations for the festivities. They were to take place on June 18, 1817. "the anniversary of tho memorable and glorious victory"-for the bridge was the War Memorial of the Napoleonic wars. The Duke of Wellington was to be the first per son to ride over the bridge; "many of the eminent troops who Distinguished themselves in the battle" would take part. These particulars were amplified in

The Observer" of June 15, which stated that the Duke, would be ne companied by the Regent, and would ride the charger he rode a Waterloo. The King's State barges would receive the Regent at half-past one, and "to add to the aquatic show, the Lord Mayor in the City State-barge, accom- panied by the members of the Corporation, will, it is expected, grace the ceremony."

The ceremony took place. "John Constable painted it in one of the less successful of his pictures. The picture, alas, will last longer than the bridge.

They knew what they were doing with that bridge. "The Times" next day did due justice to the "ceremony," recording the fact that

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A Story of Byron..

"I was through his marriage with" Mix Milbanke that Byron comes to by assciated with Hainaby Hall. The hapse belonged to the Milbanke family and was lent to the poet and wife be their honeymoon, A jew of Byron's letters written frotvi

anaby have been reserved, one which addressed to his friend foft, shows his characteristic, if Jomewhat forced, sense of humour: Talaby, Darlington, Jan. 10, 1815, I was married this day week. The parson huse proneuneed it Berry has announced it-and the Morting Poet" also, as if it were fabrication, or the puff-direct of einw stay-maker.

Then, after various references to literary matters, follows a foot- note:--

PS.Lady Byron is vastly well: | How ure Mrs. Moore, and Jac Atkinson's "Graces"? We must resent our women to one an- other.

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"We always make allowance for There is a story told of Byron's father's strong language, but stay at Hallaby which we are per- ..ow mother is nearly as bad, and mitted to reproduce through the it is having a serious effect upon courtesy of Lady Wilson-Todd, the the girls' speech among them- present owner of the estate. selves. This is all part of the so-relates to a nightmare, or fit of called greater freedom."

madness which overcame the poet. This was one of many observa-find the episode was related in a tiens on the modern girl and boy letter written out by Dr. Skey- made by Miss Morison, of the Mair, whoas father is said to have Francês Holland School for Girls, received it in Greece from Byron Graham Street, in an address at himself. Byron, according to this the conference at Acton, on June legend, sleeping in ал old- 12, of the Association of Head-fashioned bedstead with red mistresses.

moreen hangings,. dreamed Other points in Miss Morison's about Orpheus and Eurydice; speech were:-

"and when half-awake, imagined. Recently, at an unpleasant, but himself to be Orpheus. The fire- It recorded the fashionable ball, very witty, play, it was shocking 1 ht shining through the bright the vulgar fair, the monstrous to. note that the audience was red hangings made the dream more charge of 5s, which people had to more amused by the swearing vivid and impressive. He seized pay for sents on distant house- than by the real Witticisms. Lady Byron in a sort of frenzy to tops. But it paid fine tribute to "Granny" was no longer con-carry her off, using at the same the bridge itself, which was to tent to sit picturesquely in the time fearful language; the more commemorate, in the most noble chimney corner and ask for her ne resisted, the wilder he grew-- manner, the ever memorable Bible, her knitting, and her foot- in fact, it was like a sudden tem- battle," and perpetuate great stool, but cried aloud for bettingporary madness, as Byron himself deeds. I extract few pass-tips and dance favours.

described it." ages:-

this occasion the Guards wore their new pantaloons, of claret mixture, striped on the outside with scarlet.

"Beauty Thai Must Die."

Girls might read any bosh, see The writer suggests that this was - Monuments of this kind have any play, or go, with any boy the commencement of Lady Byron's stronger claims on public re-aleng to a dance. Not long ago auspicions of her husband's, mad- spect than the costly construc-parent was naked to remove a ners, auspicions which his sub- tion of pillara, obelisks, and child from a school because the sequent conduct did not help to

child had written a letter to a boy.lay.

towers.

The bridges of Jena and The worst sentence in the letter

Austerlitz, however elegant and was: "Darling, Do send me Dr. C. T. Wang, formerly Minis- convenient, are but trifles in your photo." Could they wonder ter for Foreign Affairs, who had civil architecture and engineer- that the child wanted the boy's been, staring at 90 Rua Amiral ing when compared with that photo in a girls' school? (Laugh- Courbet, Shanghai, is reported to which was opened yesterday. ter.)

have left secretly for Tientsia."

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