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LONDON REVISITED.

1. THE TOWER OF LONDON,

[BY ARCHIBALD MARSHALE, )

Soldiers in uniform are allowed to see everything free of charge that is shown to the public. Otherwise it is rather an expensive entertainment as such things

go for it costs 1. 9d to buy at the tickets, But soldiers in London, especial ly those from overseas, should by all means' visit the Tower, for although you may meet thousands of people who spend few their days in the City within minutes walk of it, and never de visit

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DISCOVERIES,

BY A BENGALEE YOUTH.

Bombay, June end, Details of some remarkably discoveries made in the chemical world by a seven- teen-year-old Bengalee, Mr. E. Butt, dis

coveries which are expected to greatly

bela India's industrial development, are published. This youth, who is now in Bombay, and who has not had a College education at all in the accepted sense of the term, has discovered that metkáňe.. for murah gas, hitherto found mostly in conf mines, etc. can readily be produced anywhere. The gas is of great use for industrial discovery was made in the Ventral Pro- purposes ny motor power. The

It dates from the time when London was a citysmalk and white and clean," with the Thames dowing past it as pure viness a couple of years ago when the as when it left the country fields of its Gerbans were developing some of their source. it breathes the very spirit of most fendish methods of warfare. At the that Old London. You turn out of the request of His Majesty's Government noisy crowded business streets into its in Great Britain, who became acquainted spacious precincts; and immediately you with the discovery when the tad applied are transported into the past. The in-fur a patent. it bad to be kept a profound pression is so strong that nobody can secret during the war lest the Germans

beard of it and put it into 'capital use.

wiss it

PAST AND PRESENT.

Young Dutt has, in addition, discovered and pateated methods and processes. by But the past is, always linked with the

which pure sulphur can be manntacthred present, for the Tower of London is not from gypsum sulphate of lime, which is merely an interesting survival. It has.

plentiful in Rajpatapa, manly, within always been very much alive. If you go.

the States of Bikanir and Jodhpur, and first to see that wonderful collection of

also in the North-West Frontier Province armour and guns and weapons, and lip-

in Kalabagh and in Sitd. The signi ger over the strange devices with which fence of this achievement cannot be over men killed each other and protected rated. A cheap supply of sulphuric acid themselves from being killed, you will would be the key to many new industries find exhibits dating from a few months in India now either non-existent or ina back as well as from the centuries-old teeble condition. This defect can now conflicts on the same battlefields. If you be remedied. The lad has also found out stand where queens bad their heads simple and cheap methods of manufactur struck off on some bright spring morning soda and carbonate of soda and ing, when the birds were singing on the gluinina, and an equally cheap process of trees that surrounded the block, you may extracting potash from ordinary rocks in reflect that the echoes of recent execu- the country Young Dutt's discovery will tions buve come from the Tower. though stable India to export potash in large no ruthless sentence has been passed upon quantities and successfully compete with the innocent. And the same with the Germany,

prisons in the stone-buil: towers, where' During the past few months," Mr. Dutt captives lightened the heavy hours by has been carrying on demonstrations, in carving those pathetic memoriala, so Bombay The demonstrations have, so carefully preserved. The Tower is still far, conclusively. proved that his dis A prison for political offenders.

coveries can be worked on a commercial basis.

In the little Norman-built chapel

A strong Syndicate of leading prayers are said and psalms sung where industrialists of Bombay has acquired the the Mass was celebrated centuries agu: patent right for the manufacture of The Beefeaters who are the guard of sulphur, potash. soda, et from år. Dutt on completion of the demonstrations, honour to the Tower and all its treasures, company, with about Rs. 2 crores 24 wear their picturesque Tudor dress capital, is to be formed shortly to under ceremonial occasions, and an adaptation take the manufacture of these chemicals. of it on ordinary days. Troops are quar, tered at the Tower besides; on the bed of Barrister-at-Law, a well-known indus- what was once the broad.. mout you may trialist of the Central Provinces. Mr. see the goals of their football ground as Dutt was born at Jubbulpore in July. you cross the bridge. It is a busy, thriv1902, and is of a weak constitution. The ing place, but all of it is coloured with major portion of his boyhood was prac that penetrating sense of the past, and rically spent in England The only

singular quietness marks it, as of mas sive strength and sureness,

Mr. Dutt is the son of Mr. P. C. Durc,

school he ever went to was St. Paul's Preparatory School in London. While in The Crown jewels, 'in their massive irun England at a very early age, the boy cage, are a show apart. Sach gold and developed a love for chemical studies. silver, mach huge and sparkling gems, The father, being an amateur geologist Such cunning workmanship are surely himself, allowed the boy to have his own not to be seen together in any other place way. Owing to the war, in May, 1915, And they tell of the royal pomp and cir. Young Dutt was brought back to Jubbul euinstance which the English nation still pore, and there is was his genius began clings to. while all over Europe emperors to shown signs of development. The lad and kings are being driven.out. For the took an interest in the study of practical He knocked about. Tower of London, symbolic for ages of geology and chemistry. strength not divorced from oppression, bis father's mines in the adjoining tells now of the ordered freedom that is localities a good deal, and eventually ourg. It stands in the shadow of the definitely decided upon becoming a che great bridge, so significant of modera en- terprise, by the highway of the Thames, an embodiment of the history of car proud city, and one of its noblest

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IL THE VICTORIA ALBERT MUSEUM.

mist. The father not only allowed the

boy to have his own way, but provided all possible facilities for the study of a subject for which he had shown such un usual interest. To send the led to the chemistry class of the Jubbulpore College was out of the question. Technically, be was not entitled to; admission, and, what. is more to the point, he probably knew a good deal more than was taught in the So many people have acquired the taste College class. He was only 14 years of for old furniture and other objects of art age then. So & private laboratory was of late years that one might expect the set up at Mr. Dutt's bungalow at Jubbul- Victoria and Albert Museum, which is a pore. The Government, hearing.of the great treasure house of them, to be crowd-genius of the boy, allowed him the use of ed with visitors. But I suppose most of the College laboratory. Young Dutt ex us would rather have one ordinary eigh perimented upon minerals extracted from teenth century chair of our own, which, his father's mines. He analysed them and of course, we should call "Chippendale," came to certain conclusions which when than look at the finest specimen of the sent to England were found totally with cabinet makers' art in a museum. So the the analysis made by well-known experts galleries at South Kensington are Dot' there. The lad went on experimenting inconveniently crowded.

and analysing, and in another two months had discovered his process for generating methane gas anywhere, as already stated above. This was his first great discovery.

Yet this museum ought to attract many visitors, for it really is magnificent. One could, I suppose, walk for mile after mile through the galleries and among the exhi- another three months he discovered bits, looking all the time at priceless and completed some fifteen processes for objects, and do so every day for a week the manufacture of pure sulphur from without getting more than a general idea sum. of what it contains:...

bles and

I spent an hour of so over the furni been used, by cunning craftsmen. Mar- ture and the beautiful, rooms that have

quartzes, ivory, mother-of- been taken bodily out of some ancient house and rebuilt in the spacions courts pearl, the woods of trees in their infinite of South Kensington. Exerything is care variety of colour and texture, silk and fully labelled, so that if you want to add wool and flax, strange and beautiful dres -all Nature has been ransacked for to your knowledge it is easy to do so. I materials, and then some man with the some cases the price paid for, a specimen instinct for fine craftsmanship has col- is given, and these prices are such as to lected those be chooses to work with and make your mouth water if you has any fashioned them into something that gives ambition to possess beautiful things for them a value they never had before. Or yourself. But they are mostly pre-war be will take cornman materials, such ar prices. Even a great museum, always of iron or clay, and fashion them into things the look out, will not be able to buy its

of beauty. treasures so cheaply in, the future. Be sides, thuse-to-be bought are-always-get-torefathers, even in humdrum England, Another impression gained is that our ok fewer.

-A SENSE OF BEAUTY.

cared more to have beauty around them than we do, and understood it bettter. The general impression you will take Look at the panelled and carved room away with you-and it may be gathered from Clifford's Inn and the fine door. From exhibits all over the, museum ways from houses in Mark-lane. Nobody of-aq almost-bewildering richness and in | but a millionaire building himself a gentulty in the creation of beautiful great mansion would provide for that things: All through the ages of civilisa sort of thing now. Yet they come from tion, all over the world, men have taken quite ordinary comfortable houses of the

delight in fashioning the materials they time

have found around, them into things that The whole story, of craftsmanship is hall give pleasure to see and pleasure to there at South Kensington from the bee use. Precious stones and precious metals ginning. If in these days of hurry and have given inspiration to their handi machinery we are opt to forget what a work but every substance that can be gracious thing at applled to the objects manipulated into a thing of beauty has of living we can be, we may learn't (Continued at foot of next column.) again by a walk through these galleries.

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