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India Reform Bill: Between Episodes At Runnymede: "A Thoughtful Boy: Lord Derby's Brother: Decline In Cocktail Habit: The Hawthornden Prize: "History Of English Law" King William ÍV Statue

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LETTER

unlike other forms of winedrink, Ing. it is not a matter of sipping but gulping.

A LANCASHIRE NOVELIST GETS THE HAWTHORNDEN

Mr. James Hilton, who is to- morrow receiving the Hawthorn- den Prize for his novel "Lost Horizon" at the hands of Lord Winterton at the olan Hall, should particularly interest your readers, for his first stories, Bike. those of so many other authors whose fame has since been estab Hished, appeared in the last page of the Manchester Guardian."

Mr. Hilton Wis born at Leigh and educated at Leys School, Cam- If Dellus at that tinay unlike bridge, and at Christ's College,, Coates, had no idea of his future Cambridge, where he took a first- honours degree. He has career, neither had another of his class contemporaries, Sir William Max- written a number of novels, the well, afterwards the well-known best known being "Knight With- out Konour,“ **Contango," "And war correspondent. Nor had an- other boy in the school, Cuteline Now Goodbye." Mr. Hilton now Hyne, yet dreamt of Captain Ketenters, his thirties under enviable

circumstances. tle.

WELL-KNOWN CONTEM

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, June 16. There now seems Hittle doubt that the India Reform Bill cannot be introduced until early next year. The Joint Select Committee "not, I understand, be able to produce the final version of their report until the end of July. by which time Parliament will be rising.

will

Then the Cabinet has to make up its mind on each of the several hundred points that will be raised. Considering the importance of the measure Ministers are not likely to rush their fences, some of which may be stiff ones."

After that comes the most arduous and ticklish part of the whole process of bringing a big piece of legislation on to the Batute Book-the actual drafting of the bill

This, which is entrusted to the Government draughtsmen legal experts all cannot take less than two or three months, as some sec- tions may be drafted over, and Faver again before they are consid-

dered watertight

THE BISHOP'S CHAPLAIN Between the episodes at the Runnymede. Pageant on Saturday I met a friend in the guise of the Bishop of Wincester.

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PORARIES

My friend tells me that Dellus used to be fond of the annual local" tides," and revelled in the hurdy-gurdy music of the fair particularly Abe Cless's strange and dramatic orchestra, Z

The Yorkshire element in Dells persisted throughout his life in his music as in his speech He never lost his North Country asserit..

SIR VICTOR STANLEY- It would be difficult to imagine two brothers less alike in appear ance than Lord Derby, and Admi Sir Victor Stante, hose death has taken place unexpectedly in India.

* SWINEY PRIZE FOR SIR

WILLIAM HOLDSWORTH

At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society of Arts yester

day the Swiney Prize for 3934 Was presented to Sir William Hoids- worth, Vinerian Professor of Eng- Hsh Law at Oxford, for his work "History of English Law.""

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The history of the Swiney Prize Curious. In 1831 a stranger called at the society's house and sealed left the then secretary

Partet enclosing the will of Dr. George Swiney, Swiney died in 1844, and it was found that he had bequeathed £5,000 3 per cent

· Lord Derby is all about. Sir Canals to the society on condi- Victor was anal and sparelzsbe Prion Maza100, contained in a tub

vakte kuulu only things they had in common of the same were their geniality: and kind-awarded every fifth anniversary iness.

of his death as a prize to the

It was the latter quality, com- author of the best published work bined with a great fondness for on Jurisprudence. He left instruc young people; that" made Sir Victions that the adjudicators were to tor such an excellent commandant be the members of the society and of Dartmouth 'Naval College.

the members of the Royal College

V.

He is Major B. Wilmot Allistone, who had the bad luck to be taken

He prisoner in August, 1914. During

was an enthusiastic golfer, of Physicians, with the wives "of be as happen to period of 21 years

took a great interest in the such of them always and

Admirals was annual rigorous imprisonment, he

Generals married."

orie

of the

thirty-nine officers match. For that contest he used LIKELY TO GO FROM LONDON

BRIDGE for reprisals when chosen

the to practise assiduously, on the **U-12" submarine's crew were course at Swinley Forest, which is of Lord segregated by Mr: Churchill. ...” virtually the property

Derby.

In the time cot given to re- enacting Magna Carta, the Blahop is instructing his chaplain in the knowledge of history and other subjects which Cambridge asks of Its future undergraduates,

DELIUS'S SCHOOL DAYS "A thoughtful lovable boy," was the description of Frederick Dellus given me yesterday by an old schoolfellow.

COCKTAIL PARTIES FADING OUT

It has now been decided by the two responsible committees of the Corporation of London to recom- mend the removal of the statue of King Wimam IV. Irom its present position at the approach to Len- don Bridge."

A decline in the cocktail habit is setting in, according to hotel and

Subject to the approval of the Club

social managers and other observers. This may be a con-Court of Common Council ar- cession to the gourmet, because the rangements have been made for cocktal? has always

re it to be re-erected in the Corpora- been as deleterious to the tion's park at West Ham. garded palate, at any rate compared The statue stands at a five-way Grace- with sherry or some other junction of Eastcheap, At Bradford Grammar School unmixed vintages. For this re-

church-street King William-street to be called

and Cannon-street the composer used

London unmixed vintages. For this rea- Fritz to distinguish him from his son cocktail parties between af- Bridge approach, and there has 'brother Max. Although brought ternoon tea and dinner are be- been agitation for a subway at this up in a musical family, he show-coming perceptibly less ubiquitous, intricate pedestrian crossing for ed, my friend tells me, no preco-

"The cocktail," remarked one of some years. | clous, powers.

my informants, "is a compliment To carry out the proposal it is to tea and an insult to dinner," necessary to remove the statue, a but he attributes the decline of granite structure weighing twenty the habit to an improvement in tons, and the proposal, has always the art of conversation, because. been vetoed.

The musical prodigy of the school Was John Coates, three years younger than Dellus, and the possessor of a ne treble voice.

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