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THE LATE LORD CURZON. BLAZING THE AIR TRAIL. HANDLING THE LAST PROOFS OF NEW PAGE IN THE ROMANCE OF

HIS BOOK ON INDIA.

A remarkable light is thrown on the character, of the lata Lord Curzon in an article contributed to the Sunday Times by Newman Flower. In the coarse of this article Mr. Flower says:

On the night before his operation Lord Curzon wrote to me from the sick bed a letter in pencil which began:

"They are ing to operate on me in the morning. We are now welt ad vanced with the book. But if anything goes wrong with me '

There followed minute instructions about certain points, written with de

beration and eahn and the sump firm handwriting, though he stood at the door of death. It was the letter of a strong man who aware that the marrow might be fateful with tragedy, could wait for it without flinching.

TRAVEL.

Ous of the most notable journeys that have been made since the conquest of tha air by sa has now been completad Air Vide-Marshal Sir Sefton Rzancker, Director of Civil Aviation, has blazed, the trail to India in anticipation of the establishment of regular services between the West and the East. The fight was not made with any idea of breaking re

strictly cords, but was an enterprise of offcial character, undertaken with a view to mapping ont a route and making the ressary preliminary arrangements with the various Governments whose co-opera The com tionis essential to success. pletion of this long-distaner tour will convey to everyone who realises the pre! dominating influence of communications an political, economie, and social pro- gress a new conception of the possibilities of air travel. Sir Sefton Brancker paid His letter referred to his book, British number of visits in fulfilment of his mission, and consequently no significance Coverament in India: The Story of the attaches to the time cogampied by the Viceroys." He had spent twenty-fivet years.writing this work. It had been the Journey to and from Indians hobby of a man who was not fond of hobbies. Now that the book was com

What is noteworthy is that the actual plete and had been pus into type, he flying time was only, about 21 hours. some days as much as seemed loath to part with it, just and that on one dislikes parting with a comrade who fight hours fring was done, which has meant a good dral through the affords further evidence of the skill and yours. I began to think he was trifling endurance of Mr. Alan Cobham, the with small details because he did nos pilot. The machine was just an ordinary want to let the book go. One day I be aeroplane, supplied by the De Havilland caux Bure of it. For a month ago, Company, while the engine. furnished when we were going over the proofs toby the Aircraft Disposal Company, whe gether, he suddenly laid aside his pen of a type which dated back to the war And, looking at me with a whimsical period. The tour was consequently in smile, he said: Do you know what this no sense a carefully stage-managed ex- book means to me? It's been a big part ploit, undertaken to impress the peopira of my life. In a way, it's a child of the East and West. It was a business child I'm proud of. It's my great book; trip with just that spice of adventure I don't suppose I'll ever write another. in it which was calculated to are the and I've given to it unceasing years of magination of everyone who realises that

You've Pile on the proofs.

we are on the evi of new age of travel, been making me work hulf the night; but I like i

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If it had been suggested ten years ago He was proud of this book, excited by it, as far as a ac under supreme self that an aeroplane would leave London control ever gets excited about anything. and travel by way of Herlin, Bucharest. When I recently showed him the binding and Constantinople, to Baghdad. the in which the book was to appear, hejeity of romance, thence passing on

Karachi. Bombay. Culeutta, and Raa- asked:

goon, the idea would have been regarded as fantastical and impossible. That, however, is what has been done by the D.H. 30. which has naw returned to London by way of Aleppo, Constant tinople, Belgrade. Prague, Strasbourg. nod Paris.

How long will this binding last? (* Longer than you will. Lord Curzon," i said, never dreaming of the tragedy

that was zo' conte,

- Will it last two hundred years?' I hesitated.

It is too early to prophesy the immed.,

Well, this book will be read two hundred years from now, anyway," he said, then what's going to happen ifliate results which will flow from this my publisher has let me down with the binding?"

blazing of the trail to the East. While on the one hand Sir, Sefton Brancker is satisfied that an air line to India could be inaugurated this year, he is impressed with the financial difficulties.

We'll argue about it then," I said. It was not vanity that suggested the two hundred years. He was right. He had written a standard work on India That the traffic would come." he de- India during the vital years of British clares, there is no reason to doubs, but No. incon- supremacy. He had given to it a gene the creation of such a service would en rosity in research which no other writer tail an initial exprase.

to India. He knew, and L. siderable suns would bave to be spent on bis

sy yielded: kuew, that his book, would stand as a developing suitable bases, and, as the record of Indian rule as long as India Chancellor of the Exchequer ill shortly under the British Crown.be reminding us, there is little, money remained When the book appears in a few weeks available for such enterprises. time the pablie will confirm that judg

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RANGE OF READING.

A MATTER OF TIME.

The development ou commercial lines of the route which has now been traver- During the months that we were used will probably be a matter of time. selated over the production of the work not only for thancial reasons but be there were sometimes moments of putul-cause aney. Che of these drew out jau epi

gram:

Why does the printer correct my English-I know English: the printer don't."

i turned over the proofs

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suficient proportion of travelling public. to make such a service pay has still to acquire the air habit. But year by year the number of people who choose this method of getting from: place to place is inerrasing. Whatever their preconceived ideas may be, more and more persons will be influenced by the saving of time which can be achieved, and time is money; and even when this consideration is of little consequence air He burst out laughing.

When I'm wrong I like to put my travel is likely to offer many attractions sef right, he said.

If you refer back to her, I said. you will see that you put it that was befor

as soon as Services at once regular and The were two Lord Cartons. One,reliable are available. Possibly the next the starpsman, cold. hustere, aloof, song of development will be the exten. often misunderstoode A typically British sion of air-travel-fucilities at a point as temperament that had a bulldog"pugna far distant ns Karachi. We are about eity, A figure that upheld all tradition to witness, in any event, a most interests in British dignity. Buy the real Lording practical demoustration of the re- Curzon was a diferent fellow. You had lative advantages of the airship and the One of the result of Sir to know the aber man some time before aeroplanë. you discovered the real. It was worth Sefton. Brancker's tour will be renewed the rivalry between the while waiting, for then you found interest in human being. There was a secret charm heavier and lighter than air machines, that came out like streaks of sunshine and as this rivalry develops a new page You discovered of the romance of travel will be turned. after a day of rain. then, not abzure of alone, but a man with sympathetic interest in those about him, who, thought of small atten- tions to others. which many of the certainty what miracles the future may famous figures of the world forget, and disclose But, at the moment, many practical obstacles to progres ve atill who had a great heart.

Whatever. Lord Curzon has been acknowledged us to be surmounted by patient research one of the greatest scholars of the Viend courageous experiment.

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with Greek classics and Blue-books, Hervices, Sir Sefton Brancker's tour will was unquestionably one of the greatest memorable in the unals of aerial scholars of a cultured age. But he read pioneering. The Baily Telegraph.

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ge of human beings. Being a bad steeper, he usually read late into the night. Not politics or philosophy, but novels, aud frequently sagazines. His range of reading covered most forms of print

OLD MEMORIES.

SHELL SHOCKED ACTOR FAINTS AT CINEMA.

When the curtain went up at Daly's

Ten days before last Christmas I sut late with him one evening discussing a "heatre on the night of March 5th. there mutual friend-Thomas Hurdy,

pears

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wan po Paut" England to play the hero. What a brain!" he exclaimed.The Dollar Princess." No one knew What a monument in British litera what had become of him until he arrived iture! I have read those books how later to explain hia absence. He was many times I wonder? Would that I

too unwell to take up e pari.

that he had been to be the ke ny Bible as well! That man

He Was shell-abooked stands out in my mind as one of the

Zeebrugge film. greatest Sgures that have arisen amidst during the war, and at the noises which the British people in the last hundred accompanied the bombardment in the Xon 18. Politica fade and change, but film be fainted. Thomas Hardy will outlast all opr poli ties."

A vast amount of staffs and senti- mental humbug has been uttered in favour of the Gospel of Work-dry Gough to do an

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The Psalmist said it was the grace of Jerusalem that she was compactly built together; but the scientist does not agree with the Paalmist-dr. Rosslyn Mitchell,

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