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WOMAN WITH TWO CHOPPERS.

CHARGED WITH BREAKING MR. CLYNES WINDOWS.

BENEATH GRIME OF CENTURIES.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY WONDERS REVEALED.

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A woman arrested with a chopper in each band outside the honge of Mr. Clynes, the Home Secretary, in St. Julin's-rond, Putney, was char-" ged at the South Western Police

Westminster Abbey is rapidly he Court with danging six plateing cleansed of the accumulated glass windows and a door at the

deposit, of grime from the London bouse to the value of £14.

atmosphere which is so damaging

WESTERN MUSIC FROM EGYPT.

ITS ORIGIN IN THE COPTIC CHURCH.

EMOTIONAL APPEAL.

Western music has its origin in ancient Egypt, according to Profes sor Ernest Newlandsmith, who has recently completed a three years' investigation in that country of the

The woman was Margaret Gar to the stone. The work on the renditional music of the Coptic bult, 42, described as independentmains of the Norman Refectory bas Church, the Church of the early of Westend, Kirkby Moorside,

just been conpleted.

Yorks.

COLLECTING CHINESE

PORCELAIN.

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£65,000 FRAUD ALLEGED.

STORY OF BIG IMPERIAL

SCHEME..

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DOMINIONS."

Marks and Prices. Marks do not help much owing to the Chinese potter's practice of frequently ante-dating his work. This was done not to. dereive, but rather "ont of veneration, for the

Brynar Games Owen, aged 35, n of Upper past. The only thing that one can consulting engineer. dediet with certainty from date Brook-street, W.,' was' charged "at marks is that a piece ennnot be How-street Police Court with forg- earlier than the late given on it.ing a letter purporting to he signed Many of the best examples have no by Mr. L. L. H. Thompson, an off- cer of H. M. Treasury. It is alle-

mark at all.

Egyptian Christians, which aplit A few words aftout prices. ged that Owen obtained £83,000, The minatursonge where the from the main body of the Church Museum pieces run from hundreds which he applied to his own pur». boys of Westminster School learning AD, -431 on a point of doctrine, to thousands or even tens of thou-pesc.

Mrs. Clynes, the wife of the Home Secretary, was in court.

to shoot, the shop where they are Many of its finer themes, Prosands of dollars, but the small col- Mr. Ernest Clayton, on behalf of Detective sergeant Nunn said that taught joinery, and the Abbey Song Lessor Newlandsmith considers, are lector can easily pick up examples the Director of Public Prosecutions, the woman was seen standing at the School lie within the remaining of extremo antiquity, and like much which are at the same time genuine stated that there were charges of door of Mr. Clynes's house with a│walls of the ruined refectory (the of the ritual of the Church wero chopper in cach hand, breaking the monk's dining-room), which was probably derived from existing pre- Kinas,

built during the last twenty years Christian worship. of the eleventh century.

At the police station she said she nd made a protest 10 the Goveru- nent which the Home Secretary had hot taken up. She had applied for special leave to deal with her diff.

"The investigation," he explain-

The roof, and nearly three-quared, "had its origin in the convic- ters of the south wall were pulledtion of Mr. Ragheb Mostah, a die- down in the year 1514, but the rest tinguished Egyptian Effendi, that stands as firmly an it did eight beneath the veneer of Arabic and Turkish influences there was much

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had broke the glass as a protest.

Wanted Legal Help. Addressing the magistrate, she aid that he wanted legal help. from the Home Office to deal with

hur difficulties,

The magistrate (Mr. Cairns).- do not know whether the Home Office has such a department. There in a department at the Royal Courts

and artistically satisfying for far forging and uttering documenta, and obtaining money by false pre smaller suing. Quite excellent things can be found at prices tences. Others would be preferred. ranging from twenty to a hundred at a later date in respect of another

dollars. A number of people buy company. imitations and fill cabinets with them, whereas if they would apend the same money on fewer bat old

Close behind the targets rises the in Coptic music both of aesthetic Pieces they would have a small col-

north wall, the lower half of which | merit and profound emotional ap-

is relieved by a fine Norman arcade This arcade had been bricked up: but it has recently been opened out and cleaned. Above are the big

teenth century.

peal. This opinion, though I was many times inclined to doubt it,

has been amply justified.

"In a houseboat on the Nile I

windows inserted by Abbot Litlinglistened to Mr. Michel, the director Lon, who renovated the refectory of the great College of Church during the latter half of the four-Music in Cairo, singing the tradi- tional Coptic hymns and services in their purest and most accurately preserved form. Mr. Michel spent hours in minutely correcting the

Like the aready, these, windows have been built up, and it has not

of Justice for people of little means. The woman.-1 need police pro- tection, and if you send me away been thought safe to remove the

lection worth possessing,

There are many books on the vast subject of Chinese Ceramics and while they help-in giving one the necessary history and details of! style, etc., they can never supply what can only be learnt by the eye and experience. Books by Bushell, Burton, Herthington and Hobson are probably the most useful.

It is good to have a hobby, cape. cially in a place like Hong Kong and the forming of a collection of

Owen, said Mr. Clayton, was en- ployed by the Ministry of Agricul ture for 'some time until 1921, when he was appointed the first Director of the Institute of Agricultural | Research at Oxford at a salary of something like £1,000 a year. Some time in the early part of last year he got into communication with the International Harvester Company of Great Britain and English com pany controlled by a parent cont- pany in America. Mr. Neal, the managing director, knew Owen as the Director at the Institute at Ox- ford.

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Owen mentioned casually to him

From here. I shall have no alterna.filling; but the stonework has been written version of each theme which porcelain can do much to amuse and another director that there was

windows.

he sang to me.

tive but to smash the police-courtwell cleaned, and the tracery, which

one and keep the mind occupied. a big scheme for supplying tractora is still perfect, can now be clearly

"Orthodox teaching says that

"A thing of beauty is n joy for all over the world, something in the.. seen from below. Near the top of great music is a thing of the last ever," and as you look at your neighbourhood of 100,000," and the the wall are the big stone corbels three or four centuries, but there treasures each one has its own story contract would be between £40,000,

Mr. Caims.-I am not porticu- larly concerned about the polier court windows. If you are embark- ing on the carcer of a reformer, you will find it a pretty thorny road,

The Woman-It is not a case of a reformer, but of asking for justice

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which once supported the timber is a tremendous emotional appeal in roofs.

much of this Coptic music, and The cast wall of the refectory is

muy of its deep-hidden themes not adorned with a beautiful arcade of only admit of but demand harmoni Abbot Litlington's time, which is insation.

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Historical Clues,

"In favour of its antiquity would point out:

scheme.

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to tell of where you bought it, and 000 and £70,000,000. He said that was in rather a bad the Institute perhaps, the length of time you took to save up the money for it, to say way financially, and he asked if the- nothing of the history of the past company would be in a position to to which you are introduced. Your finance a loan to carry out tho vases or bowls become as friends, and you will never think of them as niere "curios" (a hateful term!), but you will dignify them by the name of antiques or works of art. They ought to be both of course, Are

sented that this scheme for the sup- It is a good, rule never to hay a thing because it in old but beenust ply of tractors existed and that he it is beautiful also.

had been appointed by a sub-com- mittes of the Imperial Conference to nominate the firms who were to supply these tractors.

pleasant contrast with the grimm Norman work adjoining it. In the eleventh century south wall of the Song School there is a beautiful (1) That many of the tunca hear Gothic arched opening, inserted the nomies of villages which about the year 1320, which was used known to have been in ruins for to connect the refretory with the very long periods. If these dates kitchen.

enn be established by historical re- search, then Coptic music must be at least as old as the earliest of

them,

Where The Black Monks Dined.

All this ancient masonry has now been cleaned of centuries of dirt,

and given a coat of limewash, to preserve it. Within these walls, where boys are now taught to shoot, hammer and ing, the black monks.

of Westminster took their meals for nearly 300 years, and there the Thames fiebernau came in solemn state to pay tribute of salmon, in accordance with the legendary com

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Finally would not a small society for the study of Chinese Art be use- ful, both to the experienced collec tor and the beginner, for the inter- for change of knowledge and

Hong Kong should mutua) help! not lag behind North China with

"The alleged false pretence," said Mr. Clayton, "is that Owen repres

"The result was that by the pro- duction of letters headed "Trensury*

that the patriarchs of the Coptic its Society of Science and Arts and and. Imperial Couference and

Church stretch in unbroken aucces-

Bion from St. Mark the Evangelist, Much of its usage is undoubtedly of similar antiquity.

"(3) Ancient Egypt is the only possible source of this music, since the basic themes show no affinities to either. Turkish or Arabic music. The early Coptic Church took over many features, including the sur plice and tonsure, from pagan

its branch of the Royal Asiatic purporting to be signed by Trea Even the small foreign sury officials, the International Society. cominunity in Corea run a branch Harvester Company, was induced to of this latter Society most success- part with £33,000 in four payments, fully, but then they have not Hong Practically the whole of this money Kong's climate!

was transferred into a privato account of Owen's.

CERAMICUS.

TELL-TALE LIPS.

There will be similar charges in respect of the Ford Company," added Mr. Clayton. "He did ex- actly the same thing, with the result TESTS BY BRITISH DOCTORS.that the Ford people parted with

£35,000.

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The Legal Lip.

The legal profession has one pre- cominating facial feature-the thin

Then, for 200 years, the ground within the walla formed the garden of Ashhuraham House, which lies ritual, and it is at least probable The theory that lips and eyes are a key to vocation and character, just to the south of it. "Ashburn that the same is true of their music. ham House was originally the

"What I have brought back with suggented by Professor Bettinann, me are seven manuscript volumes, the Heidleberg dermatologiat, han Prior's Lodging, but when, in the containing the first written record already been tested by eminent

lip. Sometimes there is n gurious seventeenth century, it became the of the music of this: Church. do British medical men...

The question was discussed at anuraning of the lips. This coin- home of Lord Ashburnham, the not so much want to prove a case ne building then standing, was much to bring this music before the at recent dinner of the Royal College cides with Professor Bettmann's tention of Europe strictly on its of Surgeons. Opinions on the sub-belief that the thinkers have: the

An actual test was thinnest lips. altered and enlarged, and further

ject varied, merits.

Some years, ago. suggestion was additions have been made to it in

"What we understand to-day as also made at a gathering at an more recent times. It now belongs Oriental music appears to be simply Old Students reunion at Oxford made in scientific circles that there to Westminster School, and the degradation of what was once a University. Many men distinguish should be a new research to, form drawing room, which has a remark great art. This music, which hased in different walks of life were the basis of this subject. It was

been handed down, for untold chosen for the test. ahly fine seventeenth century plastor centuries within the Coptic Church, It was found that while there sopology-the study of the Counter- ceiling, is to-day the boys' reading | should to a bridge between East and was some link between certain fea-

West, and place e new idiom at the tures and character the theory ap- Medical men, anatomists, physio [dis]deal of Western musicians. - It-peared correct only in the generalis logists and surgeons, were, invited to dicover first a lofty, noble, and great art, ed sense, but there was one excepto undertake work to

principles for the new study, büt especially rich in that element of tion.

room.

The ancient bell which used to call the monks to dinner may be seen in the Abboy muscum.

to be enlled the Science of Pro-

janec

the infinite which is lacking to-day." (Continued at foot of next column.) the scheme fell-through,