Daily British Whig (1850), 22 Jun 1922, p. 12

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ANIEFFICI- CORRECTIVE THAT WILL QUICKLY E SYSTEM OF Xuae PARASITES, THAT IS PLEASANT ° O TAKE, ano "H WILL NOT 'NJURC TIC MOST JCATE CONSTITUTION, IS "CUND IN THAT RELIABLE MEDICINE ILLER'S WorRM OWDERS J -- -- -- [ce---- ------------] -- -- -- a ------_. tor. Telgmann School of . . Music Piano. violin and other stringed instruments; elocution and dra- matic art. Pupils may begin at any date. Terms on.application. Engagements for concerts ac- RH. JONES 390 PRINCESS STREET og i iy | centupy | sword, a real one of the Stuart per- Antonia lod, and--it-hag-never-been-replaced: Andania|The oR VICTORIA MAN BROKE KINGS SWORD THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. Story of the Missing Sword Which Once Graced Eques- trian Statue of King Charles I. in Trafalgar Square --Reader of Professor Allison's Review of Miss E. Montizambert's "Unnoticed London' Makes Inter- esting Disclosure. By Professor W. T. Allison. LS The Adventures of a Famous London Jto the head of the department. {have heard nothing d Several weeks ago I reviewed Miss [since." According to this statement {MO etate income. Montizamberts' book, 'Unnoticed [forty years have elapsed since Mr. | Mrs. Prohack fill up the first chap- Statue. HE. j London," and quoted what she had [to say in her very interesting way {about the adventures of the eques- |trian statue "of Charles which stands in Trafalgar Square {looking towards Whitehall Palace. The statute was cast in 1633, but after Charles was beheaded Crom- well's Parliament sold it to a brazler to be melted"down. This man pre- tended to obey but really buried the statute and did a roaring trade with the royalists by selling them relics which he assured them privately that he had made from the fragments. When Charles the Second came to the throne, the famous horse and its rider were dug up, and, at length, in 1674, were set up again in Tra- falgar Square, Miss Montizambert goes on to say that the statute's tri- bulations were not yet over, for about the middle of the nineteenth a curio hunter stole the author further remarks that a curious feature of the statue is the absence of saddle girths or trappings and she recounts an old tale that when this oversight was pointed out to Le Sueur, the sculptor, he was so overcome with mortification that he committed suicide, |B.C. Man Broke Sword of King Charles, Last week Miss Montizambert visited Winnipeg on a trip across Canada and I had the pleasure of meeting her and of telling her that according to a letter I had just re- ceived I could inform her who was responsible for the removal of the long-lost sword of King Charles the First. Curiously enough it was while she wag in Winnipeg that I received a letter from William Trant, of 2400 Dalhousie street, Victoria, B.C., en- closing copy of letter to the author in which he tells a strange story. Af- ter, referring to the fact that he had read my review of "Unnoticed Lon- don," he proceeds to disclose the true story of the sword, 'It was not stolen at all," he says, "but was ac- cidentally appropriated. I am a good authority on the subject because I am the culprit who did the deed. In 1867 I was a reporter on the Metro- politan Press and in December of that year Her Majesty's Theatre was destroyed by fire. I was in the crowd when it occurred and realized that a good vantage ground from which to witness the conflagration was the pedestal of King Charles' statue. 1 was much more nimble then than T am now and scaled the pedestal, using the sword to assist me in do- ing so. The weapon broke off in my hand and I was about to throw it away when a person of my acquaint- ance begged it from me to keep as a souvenir, Some years afterwards, I think it was in the eighties, a com- plaint appeared in one of the London =ewspapers that the department in charge of such matters had been very remiss in not replacing the dpstract: ed sword. I then wrote "Tha Weekly Despatch' an account of the incident and also addressed a letter FEMINISMS | great respect. | book. - A TEST OF TRUE Estelle (excitedly ta fiance) --Look, John, that's the ve: my new hat---there, on that woman's hat! Oh, let her get away--please, oh please, é 1 of the matter Trant sent his letter to the govern- ment office. We have all heard many stories concerning the leisurely the First {manner in which government officials junwind their red tape. It is just pos- sible that the department to which this letter was sent will get round to it one of these days. Why the Saddle Girth Was Omitted. Mr. Trant continues, 'I was fam- {iliar with the story of the absence of of the saddle girths and the conse- quent suicide of the sculptor. I re- peated the story over half a century ago, but was called to order by a friend for whose accuracy I had He reminded me that the absence of saddle girths is quite common amongst equestrian statues sculptured contemporaneously with that of King Charles. The sculptors of that period affected classicism, and as Caesar and persons of that ilk did not use saddle girths neither did sculptors-reproduce-thern: "An interesting item respecting |the statue of King Charles is that it {was the first equestrian statue cast in metal in England." I am assured by Miss Montizam- bert, who was intensely interested in this information supplied by Mr. Trant, that she will incorporate his story in the second edition of her I am very glad to learn that "Unnoticed London" is having a large eale in England, Miss Monti- zambert was born in Quebec city. She has lived abroad for the last fif- teen years, for much of this time be- {ing resident correspondent in Paris and London for the Montreal "Ga- zette."" She has just completed a second work in which she will do for Paris what she has already done for London, that is embody her obser- vations made during her wanderings in the French capital. Bennett's Twenty - Fourth Novel, Arnold Bennett is easily one of the most voluminous writers of our time. He has just turned off "Mr. Prohack" (McClelland and Stewart, Toronto), his twenty-fourth novel. In this story he has tried to answer this question, 'How would a civil servant act, and what would be the effect on his wife and children, if some one, whom he knew only slightly, sudden- ly died and left him an immense amount of money?' It is the easiest thing in the world to construct a ro- mance of this kind, for the dullest imagination could without dimeulty picture the various extravagances into which the fortunate hero would plunge. Nine novelists out of ten, however, would make a vulgar nar- rative out of such a plot as this, for it requires a great deal of finesse, much skill in conceiving new situa- tions and originality in characteriza- tion, As far as situations are con- cerned, I do not think that Mr. Ben- nett has been strikingly successful In this story but, as usual, he excells in witty conversation and in char- acter portrayal. Mr. Prohack, the principal in the story, is a high offic- ial in the Treasury department of the Arnold | British civil service. He is described las being 'a fairly tall man, with a | {big head, big features, and a beard. ! His characteristic expression denot- ed benevolence based on an ironic re- | alization of the humanity of human | forty-six years of | {nature. He was (age and looked it. He had been for {more than twenty years at the Treas- | jury in which organism he had now | He | {was a Companion of the Bath." Yet, | notwithstanding the fact that this | important official made the heads of | {other departments tremble, so much | |attained a certain importance. so that he was known as "the terror | of the Treasury," he drew but a very In fact he and ter by discussing the necessity for | more rigid economy in household ex- | penses. If this Treasury official had | not had a strong sense of humor the news broken to him in chapter two | that he had fallen heir to one hur- | dred thousand pounds would have | been too much for him and subse- | quent events would have landed him | in neurasthenia, as it did his good | wife, whom he tenderly loved. After | we have followed the humorous | windings of this story, we can ap- preciate Mr. Bennett's moral, "Let all pleasantly, or even unpleasantly, seedy husbands think twice before | they allow a rich friend to die in a | benevelent frame of mind." | Literary Notes. It is announced that Sir James | Barrie's recent address as Lord Rec- | tor of St. Andrew's University will | {shortly be published in book form. | His theme was "The Virtue of Cour- age' --and-ecompetent--judges--deciare {that his speech was.one of the great- {est ever made in Scotland and that | it will go down in history coupled with Carlyle's deliverance to the un- dergraduates of the same anclent | university, In spite of his dazzling | literary success Sir James does not forget that he was once a poor Scotch laddie himself. In one of the finest passages in this noble address he said, "You come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept | to the ultimate seas. Mighty are the universities of Scotland, and they | will prevail. But even in your hugh- | est exultations never forget that they | are not four but five. The greatest of them is the poor proud homes you | come out of, which said so long ago: | 'There shall be education in this land." She, not St. Andrew's, is the oldest university in Scotland, and all the others are her whelps." The most dramatic moment in his speech, which occupied an hour and a half in delivery, was when he took from his pocketbook a letter address- ed to him by Captain Robert Scott, the Antarctic hero. A great hush fell over his audience as Sir James read the last words written by his friend in his last hour, "We are in a desperate state, feet frozen, no fuel, and a long way from food, but it would do your heart good to be in our tent, to hear our songs and our cheery conversation, Later--It is here that the words become difficult ---We are very near the end. We did intend to finish ourselves when things proved like this, but we have decided to die naturally without." After he had read this letter, Sir James made this comment, "I think it may uplift you all to stand for a moment by that tent and listen, as he says, to their songs and cheery conversation. 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Another Scotman, who, like Bar- rie, has won renown in London town, is John Buchan, In his serious moods he writes history; in his off hours he amuses himself by writing Green- mantle fiction. In the newly pub- lished third volume of his *'History of the Great War," Mr. Buchan de- scribes the rise of Lloyd-George to the Premiership in December, 1916. a certain date and place many years afterwards. When that time came z ry handkerchief I want to drape I can't run after her in this skirt and I mustn't hurry and ask her where she By Annette Bradshaw Touching on the changing ministry he says, "The linch-pin of the coach was the Prime Minister, and with his accession to the highest place the world became more fully cognisant of one of the most remarkable and po- tent figures in modern history." Mr. Lloyd George, we are told, "cared little for dogma, and distrusted the Whig code, so far as he troubled himself to understand it. 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