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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, JANUARY

1995.

EUROPE'S QUEER CORNERS

REPUBLIC OF RUTHENIA

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY

FROM A CORRESPON-

..DENT

Europe has some queer corners, quch as cannot be seen. from the windows of a Wagon Lit nor through the windscreen of a speed- ing motor-car. Some of the queor- est are those pockets in the great mountain ranges, where the tide of half forgotten invasions either if it did. naver penetrated, or, receded, leaving behind communities of

primitive people, like pools on a rocky beach. They are unruffled by the tourist and unharassed by the charabane. To them a visitor la an object of curiosity not unmixed with fear, and of unfailing kindness

and courtesy.

Buch was my own' experience in Ruthenin. I arrived at a real rali- way station in a real town of large buildings and cobbled streets. I

The dress of the Maharajah of Bhutan is somewhat unorthodox, bav- ing tinge of the European. His wife prefers European shoes.

was met by a young man in a sky- blue uniform and full of phrases in stilted English. He explained to me that the Presidential motor-car was otherwise angaged, though it would be put later at my disposal.. Meanwhile, he had provided for my luggage a fine bullock-cart, drawn by two enormous white beasts, and capable of carrying the household furniture of Louise XIV. My

ly, if not forcely, national, and has its full complement of Ministers, and administrators, who are pro- perly cautiousin governing Ita wild highlanders, but exercise a temperate and tolerant authority over the milder people of the valleys. The Government is toler ant indeed. I found, a few miles from Uahorod, the capital, a por manent gypsy settlement, equipped with a school where Romany is taught. I niso found a castle where the chatelaino was countrywoman of my own, who bad exchanged the hills of Argyllshire for the Car- pathians 50 years before, and had not apoken to one from her own country for 30 years.

PLACE OF BEAUTY

Some of the great iron works of the Saar to be returned to Germany, shortly.

GOELET'S TREASURES

SALE OF. FAMOUS MANUSCRIPTS

HALF GREAT LIBRARY

Mr. Goclet's latent these many water-colour drawings by Hablot as one of the K. Browne ("Phiz") illustrating years, now stands last of the great American Ilbraries most of Dickena's Important novels, of the nineteenth century available purchased at the sale of the library to the collector to-day.

of Frederick W. Cosene.

The Goelet-library-was started in The first editions of English and a small way in 1866, and continued American authors were collected bo- for 2h years. Its outstanding tween 1886 and 1800. features are the Amérleana; the The selection to be sold in Jan- Cruikshank, Dickens, and Thack-uary, catalogued in 400 lots, com- cray collections of original draw prises about half the library and ings, books, and autographs; and the remaining portion will be sold the first editions of English and later in the scuson, American authors of the last cen- An outstanding item of the tury.

Americana is the original manu-

The day after my arrival the motor-car duly appeared, together with a guide who put my French to shame. But it needed no guide to explain the beauty of the country. We traversed it from end to end, through a succession of hamieta, where the houses clustered on the banks of mountain torrents round pagoda-like churches roofed with wooden alaton weathered to a silver grey. In the remoler villages high up in the mountains, which are renched by roads where the car Aeemed to leap from boulder to houlder, the houses are stockaded round with tall slabs of wood to keep out wolves and beara in the winter: The land in full of colour. The houses are painted with a wash of pale blue, and round the doors and windows are stencillings of brilliant greens, blues, and reda: Over the walls the pepper plant The people not riots in profusion. only have a national dress but also The first part of the well-known wear it. It is a full-sleeved white library formed by the late Mr. Much of the Americana, the script of General Benedict Arnold's blouse, like the top half of a Ogden Goelet is to be sold shortly assembling of which was begun in "Expedition to Quebec in 1776, Bishop's surplice, decorated with at the American Art Association's 1875, was purchased at the public describing an American army's exqulaite embroidery in geometric Galleries. New York, by order of sales of the libraries of Almon W. heroic and tragic struggle through Griswold, William Meuzics, George the wilderness, a document left by designs, exnetly like the border of his son, Mr. Robert Goelet.

Persian rug.

These strips of Mr. Ogden Goelet, who was born Brinley, Dr. Edmund B. O'Callag-General Arnold at West Point when embroidery are peculiar to the in New York in 1840, died on board han, the Hon. 11. C. Murphy, he fled to the British; there is, too, country-they are not exported-his yacht, the Mayflower, In 1897. Samuel 1. M. Barlow, and others. the Murphy act of the Jesuit Rela and

so are the great double bags of The Mayflower was later sold to The Cruikshank collection was tions, comprising 42 original edt- woven cloth which every person the United States Government and begun as early as 1872, and a few tions of the annual reports sent by woars flung over the left shoulder, subsequently became the Presiden-years later an attempt was made to the missionaries in New France to obtain all the prints described in the Head Provincial of the Jeauft generally with a baby in the rear tial yacht. potich. and some domestic animal or Like, many other New York Reid's catalogue, the measure of Society in France from 1632 to Produce In the front pouch. The families, the Goelets are of Hugue-success of which ambitious project 1672; and the manuscript diary of people are shy but lively. I pointed not descent, and have been estab- can be seen in the wonderful array Baron Cromot-du-Bourg, afde-de- my camera at a woman washing listed in New York for over 250 of that artist's work represented in camp of Count Rochambeau, writ clothes in a mountain stream, with years.

the library. The Dickens and ten during active participation her baby lying beside her. In a Mr. Goelet was one of the great Thackeray collections, which in-under the latter's command in the flash she leaped up, seized her child, collectors of his time. Most of the elude many original drawings and campaign which culminated in the and bolted into her house. The Important libraries formed by his autograph letters, were begun about siege and surrender of York Town, schoolmaster who was showing me contemporaries have long since the same time, the former being illustrated with 12 maps and plans round the village followed and been dispersed or found permanent considerably onhanced in 1890 by and a water-colour view of New- soothed her, and in a few minutes homes in publle institutions, and the addition of a series of original port.

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Ishe was changed into her best Sun- day dress, a litle sheepskin jacket all glorious with colour, and a new opron of waven scarlet and green throuds. But she would not bring Jout the baby.

The end of our journey was a visit to my guide's relutions in a village on the Rumanian frontier. There is only one living room in the Ruthenian house, and if the family is largo some members of it have to sleep on the dining benches. If there is a guest, who does not know that he or she is expected to go to

small and shabby sultense was potbed first and in public, the evening into it with a ceremony suitable for crown jewels.

Ruthenia is a self-governing pro- vince of Czechoslovakia. It actually naked to join that State beenuse In the turbulent seas of post-War Europe some flag had to be flown by any ship which did not wish to be pirated. But it claims to be the first permanent home in Europe of the Russian race and to speak the Russian tongue In Its oldest and purest form. It is therefore proud-

is apt to be prolonged, and my live- llest recollection of that night is wondering for hours whether it would be possible to faint in order to be taken to bed without em- barrassment. Finally I took my courage and my pryjamas in both hands, and the hint was taken as

matter of course.. I hope that I behaved properly and left the Ruthenian opinion of Scotland un- impaired. In any case, let me assure my kind hosts that the Scottish opinion of Rutheniu la that she is as lovely and her people as fine as any to be found north of the Tweed.

The funeral for Sergei Kirov, asumasinated member of the high council of the Sorist party and one of Joseph Stalin's chief lieutenants, was the most impressive since the revolution. Here are pictured high Soviet officials in Red Square, Moscow, marching behind Kirov's snaket, Stalin in the centre with V. M. Moloty and K. E. Voroshilor close beside him

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