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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930.

MARIE CORELLI TRUTHS.

"TOO MUCH IN LOVE WITH LOVE."

REVELATIONS IN HER FRIEND'S MEMOIRS.

"Miss Corelli, my son George, who is well acquainted with your

books,"

In these words the late King Ed ward, then Prince of Wales, in troduced the present King to the famous novelist at the Rittor's Park Hotel, Homburg, in the sum mer of 1802.

Coral

A UNIVERSAL INDEX. | UTTERING A FORGED

VIEWS OF BRITISH MUSEUM

SECRETARY.

13,000,000 ENTRIES "ONLY

A FRAGMENT,"

WILL

JUDGE ON GRAVITY OF

THE CRIME.

At the Central Criminal Court, London last month, before Mr. Are, we in sight of universal Justice Finlay, Horatio Austin, 31, index, of knowledge! Dr. 8. 0. Bradford, Kooper of the Science Guilty" to a charge of uttering à motor engineer, on bail, pleaded Library, South Kensington, rocent forged will, purporting to be the ly referred to the 1,500,000 classifiedwill of Victoria Maclarty. The bibilographical references ho has at prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty" to the library, fc., the reference of a charge of forging the will, and all bibliographics that have adopted that charge was not proceeded with the decimal system of classification. by the prosecution. The number would bo very much Mr. G. D. Roberts and Mr. L. greater, he says, if only the decimal A, Byrne appeared for the prosecu The story is told in a letter from system had been adopted for alltion; Mr. Laurence Vine defended. Marie, Carelli to her lifelong friend bibliographies. The dream of the In stating the facts on the part and companion, Miss Bertha Vyver, universal indexing of knowledge, of the prosecution, Mr. Roberts said which Miss Vyver quotes in her Dr. Bradford was reported to have Victoria Macinity was "Momoirs of Maria

a single said, is already, to some librarians woman, who in 1910 formed an (Alston Rivers, Ltd., 218.)--

" pressing and practical problem." association with a man named Mac- The book was published last

The secretary of the Britishlar, whose name she adopted. In month, with a photograph of

Muscunt, Mr. Arundel Esdaile, 191, Maclarty died, leaving the Marie Corolli AU Pansy st 點

asked what he thought about this woman an estate. worth £17,000, Shakespeare fancy dress ball, matter, heartily agreed that she consulted solicitors who drew She had a daughter, and in 1020 photograph of Marie Corelli as universal index of knowledge was up a will by which she left her "In Princess Lointaine, includ-dream, but he did not think the estate to her daughter and her ing a coronet and long train, a phoned of it either pressing, or daughter died childless and intest daughter's children. In 1923 the tograph of Marie Corelli driving practical

atc. About that time Victoria lactarty formed an association with the prisoner. In December, 1928, she was ill in Hounslow Hospital, and the prisoner visited her, and she made a will by which she left also to the prisoner. The will was £200 to the hospital and everything properly witnessed by one person, a nurse at the hospital, but it was not executed in the presence of the necessary second withers, and the prisoner was alleged to have added the name of a nephew of his, but not in the testatrix's presence. In February, 1929, Victoria Maclarty committed suicide while of unsound mind. The prisoner produced to her solicitors the 1028 will, and he admitted that the second signature

her Shotland ponies, and various other photographs of Marie Corelli:

Childhood Days, Mario Corelli always seems to have enjoyed dressing up, as if she never quite grow out of her childhood at Box Hill, when she read fairy tales and poetry in a "dream hole" among the trees. She, died a few years ago.

She was full of invention. Her name was an invention. Hor real name was. Mary Mackay, and her, father was the famous. Highlander who wrote, the Crimean song. "Choor, boys, cheer!" and was for four years a London, newspaper correspondent in America during the North and South War.

Mario Corelli wrote a full account

own

"Dr. Bradford has in mind the the bibliographies in his sphere of science, and I quite agreo that there should be an index to books on cogaste subjects. I think also that the decimal system, which is an ingenious sub-division of knowledge into ten classes, is by far the hest system for physical science. It was invented by Dr. Melvil Dewey, an American, and is much used by public libraries; for advanced scientific work, it re- quired 're-handling by the Institut International de Bibliographie at Brussels.

"Waste of Labour."

*** For physical science this system undoubtedly beats all rivals so far. as books on the shelves and entries

of her introduction to King Ed-in bibliographics are concerned," ward at Homburg, which is reprosaid Mr. Eadaile. But this is duced in the book.

anly one sphere of knowledgo, and "One evening," she says, "Mr.the system has never been seriously and Mrs. Gabriel gave a big din considered for literary or historical nor to me at the Kural, and their bibliographies.

of the witness was not appended in the presence of the testatrix. He was advised that no Court would uphold it,

will which purported to be dated Later the prisoner produced a July, 1005, which left £1,000 to the testatrix's solicitora and the re- mainder of the estate to the pri to put that will forward and to ask soner. He instructed his solicitors

the Court to pronounce for probate of that will. He said he had never before, both of whom were commis- heard of the attesting witnesses

sion agents. They were sect and | tablo was next that of H.R.H. My

The International Institute assay-evidence that in May, 1929, in soat faced him. He leaned back attempted to build up a complete document, which he folded over 90 a café the prisoner produced a in his chair, smoking a cigarette, bibliography of the world's litern as to conceal the real nature of it straked his moustache, and fixed ture, both in books and in articles, and asked them to affix their signa. his eyes full upon me,. He continuon cards, and has amassed 13,000,000 formal matter.

tures, saying that it was only a ed to look, much to the satisfzo

They said they tion of my hoet, who whispered, I entries, but, great as this accumula- never heard of Victoria Maclarty told you the Prince would not hetion is, it is only fragmentary by in their lives. In June, 1929, the long before spying you out.""

prisoner swore affidavit in which comparison with what remains to be.

he said he discovered the 1923 will. Maria Corelli gives a remarkable done, and, indeed, consists very In May last the motion was beard description of herself as a child in

by the President of the Probate Division and the 1020 wil was pro. nounced for. The President direct- ed that the documents should us impounded and submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions. In July the prisoner was arrested and he made a statement in which he

but I did not forge the signature of said, "I admit uttering the will, Victoria Maclarty" Thin, the pri soner said, was done by a persan whose name Mr. Roberts said it there was no evidence against that

a manuscript she left. While her largely of cut-up copies of the govorness was trying to drum world's largest library catalogues. Czerny's exercises into her sho was, by herself, playing Chopin like a Paderewski. She shocked the governess by reading/Byron,

ever do that"

+

would not be fair to mention, as

Nor is it probable that, at any rate as far as books are concerned, much use would ever be made of She spoke to the govorness about such a single repository. It is "conquering fate," exclaimed "I'm. 50 dreadfully alivo" and said, "I bound to consist,, in the mass, of am too much in love with love to the output since about 1800 or 1950. talk of it lightly! It is everything Now, na inquirer who wishes to to me! It is beauty and joy and trace an English book of this period wonder! When I fall in love I shall give all my life! Did you will go straight to the British

Museum catalogue and, for A person. French book, to the

The Judge said the prisoner had National ploaded. "Guilly" to what ad Library in Paris. The duplication mittedly was a crime of the very of these catalogues at Brussel is a utmost gravity. He, however, there waste of labour.`-

thought there was some mitigation in the circumstance that there was an invalid will leaving the prisoner would be followed by a sentence of the money. Ordinarily this crime

very many years' imprisonment. The rentepen he should pass was very much less than the sentence, he should ordinarily think it his duty to pass. He sentenced the prisoner to three years' prnal servitude.

DOOM OF THE ETON CROP.

HAIR TO BE LONGER, AND. CURLY

The E slier Centuries.

"There exists a very large, field, Though nothing like so large nå that of the last three-quarters of a The leading hairdressers of Lon-.. don are in Paria-deciding, with century, lying between the modern the assistance of their French col-period, the products of which can leagues, the new ways in which be found in the national Hibraries, women are to be encouraged to dress their hair this autumn. And and the early period up to 1500 in here are some of their secrets. some countries and up to 1840 in The hairdressing chiefs will not our country, the products of which have women's hair short or cut at also have been well recorded. Only the nape of the neok. They will

not have it long and dressed in a recently

aliort title catalogue,

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Customers must have curls this autuma-any kind of curls from Nell Gwynn ringlets to kiss curls. "It is impossible to tell you

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a master hairdresser, who was away. "conferring, because the new styles are not yet ready for disclo

sure. You are too soon.

knowledgo will ever be more than ta Maru; A3, Nanking : A4, Tjika a dream is very doubtful. So much | rang; Ab, Antung; Ad, Tjikini, BT, preliminary spade-work remains to Uremer; A8, Nam Sang: Bo, be done. The amalgamation of con- Borneo; A10, Hongkhong; BIK Aiderable groups of knowledge by Kintan Maru B12, Kiangsu, B13, means of the decimal system might Chenari: C14. Taipoosek; Cib, Kwei- bo longer than it has been-it will perhaps be a useful step forward, yang; C17 Dorry; B24, Defiance

"One thing is certain-hair will

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