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BRITISH GIFT TO JAPAN. BOOKS FOR IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY. The disastrous earthquake of Septem-

ber, 1923, it affected Tokyo Imperial

£2,500,000 WASTED IN 12

YEARS

CONFESSIONS" OF THE MARQUIS

DE CASTELLANE.

500 LACKEYS AT A RECEPTION, University, can now be visualised from the Memorial Albuns compiled by the

The Marquis de Castellare, who mar, University Library. A copy of this album has been presented to the British Acade.ried Miss Anna Gould, one of the richest my, who are helping in the reconstrucgirls in the world, tells in his Confe tion of the great library, now lust, which sions? (Thornton Butterworth) how he Qumbered some 700,000 volumes, many

of

then irreplaceable. Io due course an.spent nearly £2,300,000 in twelve years other, volume, published by the Univer-in a life of luxury that reads "like sity, will give a record of the gifts which, romanec or a fairy tale.

The Castellanes are among the very a tokens of profound sympathy, have reached Tokyo from all parts of the oldest and proudest families it beans. says the marquis. world for the new library already plany ancestors,"

"exercised the prerogative of coining descen- but ned on a scale commensurate with the

most of their wide intellectual activities of the Uni-money, of

versity-one of the greatest Imperial infants appear to have been mainly en

dowed with a capacity for spending it."] stitutions of Japan.

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of potent encouragement the active and generous friendship shown by Great Britain, more especially as regards the efforts now being carried through to present an adequate library of British books as the British gift to the Univer sity.

He arrived in America penniless for was so hard up that my cab fare from the wooing of Miss Gould." Indeed. I the landing stage was charged to my ne count at the Waldorf-Astoria This entire lack of money was in suing myste rious way quickly overcome, and he was soon at fashionable Newport or staying. with Miss Gould's brother.

The marquis married Miss Gould in New York in March, 1995, twelve months after he had first met her.

When he was married and back in Paris the marquis, started to spend his wife's money, and in the first few days he had paid away £40,000 to antique dealers, and he owed as much again. was, he says.intoxicated with the power of purchasing. I was omnipotent

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He rented the Tir aux Pigeons, erect- "These booksed a stage on the banks of the lake, and Venetine Lamps when they arrive," writes the president presrated a great ballet.

Eighty thousand of the university,will ever be remem bered and used by our professors and (made expressly far me at Murano) were students as an expression of the great dispersed in the dense blackness of the us by the English trees, where they glittered in the pale sympathy shoten nation, and our librarian shall devise similitude of transparent fruits, and in- some arrangement for deggstrating this numerable trefly lights outlined the

aux Pigeons. memory ineporial hall in the new walks and the avenues leading to the Ti baiding to be extrücted.”

SCARLET FOUTJEN.

It is an in executive over which

It was a veritable illuminated high- Lord Balfour presides. At a recent meet

way, and ordered sixty footmen in ing the following additions were made:- Sir Charles Elat (H.M. Ambassador of seaflet livers to group themselves ou the grass, I rightly estimated the Tokyo), Mr. Gastles and Ashton Foreign Gwatkin (representing the

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be given in Paris. Needless Office) and Mr. MacIssac representing effect which this vivid patch of colour

It was the Stationery Ocentive; and Mr. to say, its cost ran into thousands (to Miyazaki, Secretary of the Embassy, has

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che nres "or

similar entertainment, would re- quire a million), and I was naturally the object of much comment."

The marquis had a passion for sur rounding biruself with powdered foot- men. Some of his guests were moved to Leavy and jealousy.

Before any portion of the Government grant has been spent the committee has already dispatched to Tokyo some 11,000

Hence they occasionally lost their volumes as generous gifts from the leading publishers, earned sociezies, universities, heads, and indulged in unheard of vul- Some 50 garities. On one occasion an unspeak- libraries, and private donors. publishers responded to the committee's able end stuck a pia izto the leg of a appeal; and special reference may be footman. in order to ascertain whether made to the liberality of the University hia calves were padded! The unfortu nate man uttered a stifled shriek, hut Presses of Oxford and Cambridge, and to Messrs. Jacmillan, Bell, Dent, Long refrained from turning on his tormen- mans, Sweet and Maxwell, King, Buttertor. and, although I condemned the ac worth, and Fisher Unwin. The univer. tion, could hardly refrain from amil- sities and colleges, in addition to the ing

Occasionally. when we ectertianed grants of books from their presses, bare contributed other gifts-books from their 2,000 guests at our soirées, a line of car- libraries or, in some few cases, donations riages extended from the Avenue to the from their funds. About 70 societies Arc de Triomphe, and sometimes. 500

the with

British footmen, who had come to attend their institutions, Museum at their head, are included in masters. filled the halls I seemed to be the list of bodies presenting their pub surrounded by a revolving aureole of powdered wigs and scarlet liveries, on lications.

The aim of the Foreign Office and of which were embroidered the arms of my

carefully house. the committee is to plan Bystematised scheme of books in each of the chief departments, which are to be restored, and for this purpose advisory committees are being appointed to help in the drawing up of adequate lists.

Bibliography. My scheme of decoration was un- These departments are English Language and Literature,, Lav usual. Chinese screens, tables, and arm- and Folitical Science, Economics, Art, chairs wero disposed on deck in order History, Philosophy and Education, Geo to produce the effect of an open-air graphy, Mathematical and Natural drawing-room, and when his Royal High- Sciences, and Orientalia The Faculties ness arrived, he found the officers of the of Law, Literature and Economics were yacht lined up on either side of the gang- the worst sufferers by the earthquake, way to salute him."

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The marquis, acting on King Edward's suggestion, made to him when he was Prirco of Wales, built a racing yacht and appeared at Cowes.

Law and Politient Science holds the The marquis is caive in the details He leading place in the Arts section of the frankly gives of his expenditure.

"My general existence, my chateaux, university, the Faculty numbering no fewer than 32 chairs, with two Professors my palaces, my bibelots, my racehorses, my yachts, my travelling expenses, my of English Law in particular.

The presence in England of Dr. Kenzo political career, my charities, my fetes, Takayanagi, Professor of the College of my wife's jewels, and loans to my Law, Commissioner for Reconstruction, friends, represented a total ontlay of has been welcomed by the Advisory Com sixty million franca (nearly £2,500,000) mittee on Laity and Political Science, in twelve years, which came out of our which consists of Sir Frederick Pollock, income."

knows. Bir Albert Gray Sir Herbert Stephen, and Professor E. Jenks; and this section "No one," pathetically adds the mar of the work is now well in band. An quis, has ever replaced me." Many tried active advisory committee in Japan will to imitate him, while he made lavish ex- receive the proposals of the English Com penditure a fine art, he says... mittes through the Foreign Office, the British Ambassador acting as intermed iary. The Times.

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In introducing to the Archbishop of below, the appeal of Dr. Halliday Buther Canterbury on November 2ith a depu land against the judgment entered by the tation representing 304,00 objectors to Court of Appeal for Dr. Marie Stopes the Alternative Communion Service in in the libel action out of a book the Revised Prayer Book, Bishop Kuos a satisfactory Control Mathalle the that efforts to find annual

Confeder half-way house between the Church Com- ation of England and Wales, next day, munion Service and the Mass had failed. Cardinal Bourne, the Arohbishop of West- Closer working with the Nonconformist minster, made a reference to the de- Churches, Sir W. Joynson Hicks said. cision of the House of Lords in the case was impossible if the Church of Eng of Dr. Marie Stopes, and expressed the land carried out such proposals as were opinion that it was a great victory for contained in the Alternative Communion the cause of morality.

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