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Fifty-Seven Shillings A Word: £25,000 Estate Of Mr. Birrell: Oxford Honours Famous Woman Astronomer: Genius Who Die Young: “Loaned” To Australia

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London, February 3

that The War Office announces the following appointmente bave been approved:

Col. (temp. Brigadier) A. A. | Goschen, D.S.O.; Aide-de-Camp to the King, to be Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (about May 1, 1934). -

CONTRAST IN FRICES has been engaged with her uncle,

London, February 3." Mr. F. A. Bellamy, at the Oxford Col (temp. Brigadier) J. Blakis The public subscription towarda University "observatory in deter-ton-Houston, D.9.0., to be Con- the cost of the Codex Sinaiticusmining the position of stars rece-mandant of the Equitation School, now amounts to only £18.010. ived to-day the bonorary degree of Weedon, and Inspector of Cavalry

Enthusiasm for religious works MA.

|(Aug 11, 1924). runs higher in Fleet-street. Lon- don publishers and newspaper of fces have been bidding for the un- published “Life of Christ" by Charles Dickens.

The contract of sale has been approved in principle and is now in the solicitors' hands for final drafting.

The price for world rights is said to be about £40,000.

This sum is equal to half of the entire fortune which Dickens left at his death.

FIFTY-SEVEN SHILLINGS A

WORD The offices of Messrs. Curtis Brown, the very able literary agents who have been handling the many- been "buzzing with uscript, have activity as steadily mounting bids were received,

It is a I have read the book straightforward little story told in very simple language, and consists of 14,000 words.

At the price I mentioned above

It is valued at 574, a word,"

This is nearly three times the previous record; price for literary work, which Mr. Lloyd George re- ceived for. His articles from Mr. "Randolph Hearst...

MILLION WORD LIFE There have been many previous attempts to rewrite the story of the gospels.

The best known of the popular books are Dean Farrar's "Life of Christ," and Bishop Go.e's Jesus of Nazareth," Dr. Ederstein's "Life of Jesus" and Bishop Headlam's "Life and Teaching of Jesus" are learned reconstructions for scho- lara..

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With her uncle, Mies Bellamy Col. Goschen ja notable for being has been responsible for placing a triple D.S.O. Entering the IL.F.A. about a million star. The work at in 1809, he was decorated first in the Oxford was begun forty years ago, South African War in 1901. In the when the observatories of the European War two bars were added, world divided up the sky among one in 1916 and the other in 1918. them. When the Vatican observa-He has been Brigadier, Royal Artil- tory got behind in the, work Oxford Jery, Aldershot Command since 1991. took control, and Miss Bellamy He is 64 years of age."

went to Rome to assist, for which Col. Blakiston-Houston, who is she received a sliver medal from 32, entered the 11th Hussars from the Pope.

the Militia in 1902. He served in To-day's honant was unique in the South African War with Mount- the history of the university, fored Infantry, and later was seconded Miss Bellamy is the third member to the West African Frontier force. of her family to receive an honour- He gained the D.S.O, in the Europe. ary degree,

an War in 1917, and commanded from 1927 to 1931 the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.

. GENIUS WHO DIED YOUNG

A striking yet pathetic gift in this month's acquisitions by the

· Victoria and "Albert Museum, South

ceremony was performed by the Kensington, is a plece of stained retiring Master, the Mayor at glass, symbolising St. Michael, the

Kensington. The Duke appointed work of the late Mr. Frank Barber.

as his Deputy Master Mr. A, E. Mr. Barber, who died at the age Worthington, and as his Wardens of 26, on Christmas Day, 1932, was Mr. Anthony Hamilton, son of the one of the most brillant pupils who ever attended the Royal Collate Lord George Hamilton, who was Provincial Grand Master for ege of A

Experts claimed that Mr. Bar-Middlesex for over 40 years, and

Mr. Walter Haddon. ber's genius was rare, in that he

LIBERALS IN SEARCH OF was able to recapture some of the lost art of the ancient craftsmen,

A POLICY

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who gave to posterity church win- The new Liberal policy, which dows gleaming with the beauty of has been hatching for some time. such works as the great rose win-is to be revealed, on the instalment method by Sir Herbert Samuel, dow in York Minster.

Mr. Barber was greatly mourn beginning with

speech at ed, and a body of subscribers have Manchester on February 3, fol- now made the gift of "St. Mic-lowed by further orations at Bri- hael" to the museum.

mingham and Newcastle at fort- rightly intervals. What the new revealed to-day that Liberal idea is can only be guessed, but the yellow or green book Dame Janet Campbell, MD, the

Fairy Godmother of thousands method of telling the world is or children to whose welfare she apparently no longer

The 'new of her has devoted many years

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A MEDICAL LOVE STORY

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Of a completely different kind are such books as Renan's, "Vle de Jesus," and George Moore's "The Brook Kerith," These seek to rationalise the story in a spiritlife. is engaged to marry Mr. awaited with friendly and critical of scepticism.

Michael Heseltine, the Registrar of the General Medical Council. yet been fixed.

The date of the wedding has not

Mr. Heseltine said to an Evening representative to-day: "It

News

is true that we are engaged. but we have not officially an ̈

the nounced

engagement. I suppose Our friends have let it out.”

Sir Hall Caine had completed a million word life of Christ shortly before his death. This, abbreviat- ed to a quarter of its original leng- th, is shortly to be published.

£25,000 ESTATE OF MR. BIRRELL Mr. Augustine Birrell, the former Cabinet Minister, of Elm Park- road, Chelsea, who died or. Nov- ember 20, aged 83, left £25,499...

"LOANED" TO AUSTRALIA Probate of his will, dated Sep-

Both Dame" Janet and tember 10, 1928, with a codici of September 2 last, has been granted Heseltine have had distinguished to his son, Francis Frederick Loc- medical careers and have worked ker Birrell, author, of the same ad- together at the Ministry of Health.

Dame Janet caused a big sur dress, and his nephew, Charles Douglas Medley, solleitor, of LJn-prise when she resigned her post coln's Inn Fields, W.C.

Mr.

in favour." statement of policy is

interest by the Ministerialists, who for some time have watched, not

the

without sympathy, the efforts of the Liberal leader to make capital on behalf of the Liberal creed-an almost impossible task-in a period of intense economic nationalisı. at home and abroad. quest for political pabulum which will inspire the rank and fle, S Herbert Samuel has been assisted by Lord Lothian, Sir Archibald Sinclair, and Mr. Ramsay Mulr.

PASSING OF A ROOSEVELT FIRM

I have

seen no reference, by way of comment on American banking reforms, to the twinge of Senior as

Medical Officer for sorrow with which President at Roosevelt must have seen the Mr. Birrell gave £100 each to his Maternity and Child Welfare

own order. stepsons, Alfred and Charles Ten- the Ministry of Health early this break-up, under his nyson, his household effects at his month and no hint was then given of the oldest investment firm in house at Chelsea and at shering- that she was to be married. She Wall Street, founded by Jacobus ham. Norfolk (if not ready sold), had been in Government service Roosevelt in 1797.

she became The original hardware house. his MS8, and copyrights of publish since 1918, when

member of the War medical

founded by Theodore Roosevelt's ed books to his son Francis,

great-grandfather, took to dis- Another bequest was 2100 to Ada Cabinet on women in industry. Tattersall, with many thanks In 1919 she was chief woman counting its customers' notes and of other hardware for her devotion to my son Ant-medical omheer to the Board of later those

By 1854 the now Education, and subsequently be- merchants. hony," and the residue as to one half to his son Francis absolutely, came attached to the Ministry of powerful Chemical Bank and Trust She is a member of the Co.,. Which the Roosevelt's had and one half upon trust for his Health.

found thirty years son Anthony for life, with remain-Health Committee of the League helped to

earlier, had brought the family der. to his son Francis absolutely. of Nations..

In 1929 she was "joined" to the fortune to half a million dollars.

At the end of the Civil War, Australian Government to inves- Mr. Geoffrey Lowndes, Lord Ten-tigate child welfare conditions in hardware forgotten, Roosevelt and 2 prosperous banking nyson's successor as captain of the the Commonwealth, "and spent six Bon was Hampshire cricket XI., belongs to months there...

house. Latterly it has specialised the Buckinghamshire sporting fa-

as a dealer in rallway and muni- unrivalled mily. I remember him as the lo

cipal issues, with an cal squire and an active supporter

reputation for the unbiased advice of village cricket round about Che-

given to its customers... sham.

NEW CRICKET CAPTAIN

He is a slashing bat, but hits en- ormously hard in a vigorous rather than a pretty style. He is also a useful bowler, particularly with the new ball,

MR. HESELTINE'S CAREER Mr. Eeseltine was regarded as "heading for big things at White hall" when he resigned from the. Ministry of Health in November, 1932, to become Registrar of the General Medical Council. He was only 46 then, and had distinguish ed himself in his work at the

There are few games and sports | Ministry. at which Lowndes is not proficient, He was awarded the C.B. for his He plays Rugger, polo, lawn ten-war work, and was regarded as nis and golf; he hunts, fishes and "one of the most far-sighted and shoots. He went straight from the trustworthy members of the Civil Eton XI' into the 21st Lancers in | Service." 1916. After the war he went up to {- New College, gaining his Blue Ja 1921.

OXFORD HONOURS FAMOUS

WOMAN-ASTRONOMER A

Miss Ethel Bellamy, an eminet astronomer, who for many years

THE PRICE OF COMPLIANCE Now, under the new Banking Acti which requires private banks to separate the banking sides of their and securities business, Roosevelt and Bon hac been split into three,

George Emien and Philip James great-great-grandsons Roosevelt,

of old Jacobus, are to carry on the management of investments; Theodore's son Archibald - and THE DUKE OF YORK AT

Charles E. Weigold are to look FREEMASON'S HALL

after the bond business as Roose- The Duke of York, who is Provin-velt and Welgold, Inc., the general cial Grand Master for Middlonez, securities aide now becomes Des was last night installed as Master and Merle Smith, with only John of the Middlesex Masters Lodge, K. Roosevelt on the board to 3420, at Freemasons Hall. The I preserve the old family link.

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