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00 THE TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1915. 11 What Book Will You Give It is a settled fact that the Gift for this Christmas will usually be a Book. The reading fashion, so noticeable in all quarters this winter, makes Books the most 'desirable Christmas present. Books are so varied in character and price that there is no taste that they cannot accommodate, and no purse that they will not suit. So the question is not "Shall I give Books? but "What Book shall I give?" and the answer is to be found in a delightful handbook to current Literature, specially compiled in a Givers' Guide by the Bookmen of The Times Book Club.

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Court News. No Court Circular was issued from Buckingham Palace last night. The King will bold an Investiture at Buckingham Palace this morning. The Spanish Ambassador left London yesterday for Ilfracombe. Viscountess Gormanston gave birth to a son at Gormanston Castle on Tuesday.

Lord Hawke has left London for Retford. Lord Bagot has returned to Blithfield. Sir Gilbert Greenall returned to Walton Hall yesterday. Queen Amelia will be present at a musicale at Claridge's Hotel next Wednesday, at 3.30 p.m., in aid of the Croix Rouge Hospital, 'Les St. Servan, Brittany (Supply Workroom, Knightsbridge).

Among the artists will be, Mme. Gleeson White, Viscountess Dupplin, Mr. Plunket Greene, M. Edouard Deru, and M. Emile Cammaerts, who will recite his own poem A memorial service for Lord Armitstead will be held to-morrow, at the at 2.30 Westminster The Chapel, funeral Buckingham-gate, p.m.

Dundee on Saturday. MARRIAGE. VISCOUNT CRANBORNE AND MISS CAVENDISH. The marriage took place yesterday at Cartmel Priory Church of Viscount Cranborne, Grenadier Guards, elder son of the Marquess and Mar. chioness of Salisbury, to Miss Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, eldest daughter of Lord Richard and Lady Moyra Cavendish, and niece of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.

The Bishop of Winchester, the Rev. Lord William Cecil, Canon Fowler, the Rev. G. Smith, and the Rev. S.

Taylor officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of lace and carried no bouquet. She was attended by eight bridesmaids -the Misses Alix, Mary, and Diana Cavendish, Lady Dorothy Cavendish, the Hon. Edith Smith, Miss Mollie Lascelles, Miss Helen Cecil, and Miss Phyllis Astor. They wore gowns of white chiffon trimmed with silver, with wreaths of green leaves.

Mr. Arthur Penn, Grenadier Guards, was best man. A reception was held after the ceremony at Holker Hall, the residence of the bride's parents. and the bride and bridegroom afterwards left for Cranborne. Among those present at the wedding were Lady Edward Cavendish, Lady Louise Loder, Lady Robert Cecil, and the Earl of Rosebery.

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES. CAPTAIN E. F. EAGAR AND MISS RUSSELL. An engagement is announced between Captain E.

F. Eagar, 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment, eldest SOn of the late Captain E. B. Eagar, 5th Fusiliers. and of Mrs.

Edward Franks, of Bishops Cleave, Gloucestershire, and Elaine, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Russell, of Pittville House, Cheltenham.

CAPTAIN G. LYELL AND MISS FoY. The engagement is announced between Captain A. G. Lyell, 39th Garbwal Rifles, Indian Army, youngest son of Mr.

Mrs. James C. Lyell, of Heathfeld, 68, Upper Richmond-road, Putney, and Dorothy Flora, second daughter of the Rev. Charles Bradshaw Foy, M.A., vicar of St. Mary's, West Kensington, and Mrs.

CAPTAIN W. S. STAFFORD AND MIss WEALL The marriage arranged between Captain W. S. Stafford and Miss Weall will take place very quietly next Saturday at St.

Andrew's Church, Watford, at 2.30. No invitations will issued, and there will be no reception, but friends will be welcome at the church. MR. H. M.

ROBINSON AND MISS MILLIGAN. A marriage has been arranged between Hugh Methven Robinson, 7th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, son of the Rev. E. C. and Mrs.

Robinson, late of Hanbury Vicarage, Burtonon-Trent, and Frances, only daughter of the Rev. W. T. and Mrs. Milligan, Tong Vicarage, Shifnal, Shropshire.

MR. G. L. FOX-PITT-RIVERS AND MISS FORSTER. The marriage between Mr.

George Lane Fox-PittRivers, Royal Dragoons, and Miss E. Rachel Forster will take place on Wednesday, December 22, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, at 12 o'clock noon. MR. V.

DAVIES AND MISS WAREFAM SMTTH. An engagement is announced between Vivyen, Lieutenant Army Service Corps, only son of Commander Frederick Davies, R.N. Reserve (retired), and Mrs. Davies, of Shanghai, and Enid, only daughter of Mr. and -Mrs.

Wareham Smith, of 91, Upper Tulse-hill, London. MR. L. G. WICKHAM LEGG AND MISS LINDSAY.

The marriage arranged between Mr. L. G. Wickham Legg and Miss Olive Maud Lindsay will take place at 2 p.m. No invitations are being issued there very quietly at St.

James's, Piccadilly, a next Thursday, will be no reception. CONDITION OF INVALIDS. Lord Burnham had a good day and his condition last night was quite satisfactory. Lord Shuttleworth is getting on satisfactorily. Sir Samuel Evans is making favourable progress.

Sir William Bull continues to make steady progress. The health of Mr. Albert Stanley, M.P., who has been unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties for the past 18 months, is causing considerable anxiety. CLUBS FOR WOMEN WORKERS. LADY F.

BALFOUR ON A. WAR-TIME DISCOVERY. By invitation of Lady Brassey a meeting was held at 24, Park-lane, yesterday, in aid of the work of the Y.W.C.A. in providing clubs and hostels for working girls, LADY COWDRAY presided. The Central Committee for work among girls in military centres was formed in October of last year, and the programme outlined in a letter to The Times signed by Lord Sydenham and Lady Procter received hearty support, Between 30 and 40 clubs have been started in various parts of the country.

A special feature which has been attended with the happiest results is the open night," when members are allowed to entertain male guests, LADY FRANCES BALFOUR said the war had discovered what women were fit for they had been help mates and in some instances guardian angels to their comrades in the front. After the war she doubted if any General, however ignorant of that part of the community, would find it necessary to repeat Lord Kitchener's warning to soldiers to beware of Miss PICTON-TUREERVILL said the production of war material depended largely on the labour. of women. After long hours of work young women needed recreation. The association had opened 34 hostels in London, which were all full.

Where houses and rooms could not be procured for munition workers, huts were constructed when asked for. To fulfill promises sum of £800 was urgently needed, as well as helpers. Mr. JOYNEON-HICKS, M.P., said the war had brought blessing in the marvellous effect it bad had on the soul of the people, and the change was largely due to the unselfish characteristic of women, who had worked. and suffered in anxiety without the glamour and excitement which encouraged their male relatives to enlist.

The Munitions Workers' Auxiliary Committee are in urgent need of resident voluntary helpers in their canteens for women employees in munition centres. Further information can be obtained from Lady Cranworth, Y.W.C.A office, 23, Bruton-street, between 10 and CARNATIONS IN WESTMINSTER. The exhibits at the show of the Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society in the Royal Horticultural Hall yesterday, which numbered over 300, came from all parts of the country. The gold medal for a group of many varieties in pots was awarded to Stuart Low and of Bush Hill Park. Sir Daniel F.

Gooch gained the Lord Howard de Walden Challenge Cup for fine group of pot carnations, the colours of which ranged from pure white to the deepest crimson, and the Sir Engelmann Cup for 13 plants was won by Major Randolph Baker, M.P., who has recently returned home wounded from the Dardanelles, Other prize winners H. were T. Mason, of Oakley, Hampton of Hill, Mr. A. H.

Hartley, of G. Laton, Lady Mr. Englefield-green, Mr. G. J.

0. of Horton, of Reading, Captain D. Macpherson, R.N., Essex, Yeovil, and Mr. J. C.

Jeaner, of Rayleigh, WOMEN ON THE LAND. TOWN GIRLS UNFITNESS FOR FARM WORK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. correspondent who writes On work for women to-day asks whether I think that town girls are more likely to respond to the demand for agricultural female labour than their country sisters. Personally I confess I do not.

What I have tried to point out is that in the main country women will not work upon the land in England, that is so far as my belief and information go. But great authorities, such as Lord Lansdowne and Lord Selborne, appear to hold a different view, or at least to surmise that sufficient female labour is available if the prejudices of farmers in the matter can be overcome. Thus the representative from the Board of Agrioulture, amongst other examples to Norfolk agriculturists, told us recently of a farmer who put his cook, housekeeper, and housemaid on to pull mangolds," intimating that we might do likewise. Well, most of us do not keep housekeeper, but if we tried the experiment with the cook and the housemaid I am vinced that the day's mangold pulling would end for them at the nearest railway station. Seriously, I can but suppose that the President of the Board of Agriculture, with all the resources of a great office at his command, knows much more of these questions than any individual observer.

He tells us to break up poor pastures and raise more food; also to replace men who must be taken for military service with women. Therefore he must have satisfied himself that women are available. But they do not seem to be available in the English villages. So it must be in the towns that they are available. If so, in the nature of things they require education in agricultural matters.

This being so, I suggest that colleges should be provided, something on the Danish model, in which they can be taught. But of course, if your correspondent is right and the women are not forthcoming, such colleges would be an unnecessary expense. It is to be hoped that he is not right, since, as I have said before, there are large openings for women in all the lighter branches of agricultural work where their assistance would be most welcome. May I add a word There seems to be some idea that farmers 'are captious and -seeking about this matter. I am sure it is not so.

I am sure that the vast majority of those connected with the land would be prepared, if neces sary to the country's welfare, even to see it go out of cultivation if thereby they could help to stave off the greatest of national disasters. whereof, absit omen, I will not speak. But they cannot do the impossible. labour They cannot both give up their essential and produce more food. Nor, if women refuse to work, can they make them do so.

It is useless to instance France. The spirit that animates the women of France has not yet permeated the rural districts of England; perhaps the absence of peasant proprietorship here partly accounts for this difference. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, H. RIDER HAGGARD. Ditchingham, Dec.

7. WOMEN DOCTORS. SCHOOL EXTENSION FUND APPEAL As a result of the appeal published in The Times on behalf of the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women, £2,757 has already been received. The following contributions, amounting to £967, have reached the hon. treasurer since the last published list.

The asterisk denotes that the subscribers had previously supported the fund, but have made further donations in response to the appeal referred to £8,700 is still required to meet the cost of extending the lecture rooms- laboratories, which has become necessary owing to the increasing number of young women desirous of qualifying for the medical profession- choice of vocation to be encouraged, having regard to the falling number of students in the men's medical schools and the heavy calls on physicians and surgeons made by the war. -Mesara. Debenham and First year's interest on £2,000 War Loan, given to the. School as Endowment by A Godfrey Walker. £52 10s.

-The Worshipful Company of Skinners. £50 EACH. -Altred Herbert. Esq. Mrs.

Lyndon "Lady Mond. 525 Ashton of Hyde: Mrs. Edith 8. Bright Francis Godlee, Esq. Mrs.

Mylne Mrs. E. Yates Thompson May Thorne: Evelyn Viscountess de Vesci. £20. -Miss A.

Cheetham. £14 -Collection, South Kensing. ton Branch, L.S.W8. £10 Jordan Lloyd G. Adair Roberta.

£10 EACH. Walter Brown; "Lady Buchanan-Jardine: G. F. Chance, Esq. Ryde, K.C., and Mrs.

Ryde Leslie Scott, K.C.: Tubbs. £5 -Per Mrs. Franklin. £5 Francis Oppenbeimer. £5 Aykroyd Miss Ayr Margaret Bollean Janet Campbell: Florence Cooper Mrs.

John Ellis Mrs. Hermann Falk, M.B., B.S. Alice M. Kemp P. Lawrence Miss Lister Miso E.

M. Lister Mins G. Lister Mrs. C. Merivale F.

E. J.P.; Moysey Napier: Miss P. Rathbone: Lady Laurs Ridding "Mrs. Russell Charles Russell, Esq. Mrs.

Seekings Willoughby de Broke: Anonymous. £3 EACH. -Walter Butler, Mrs. The Misses Redgrave. Waddingham, £2 24.

Ven. T. H. Archer-Arublon, D.D.: Poss Bale; the Hon. Mrs.

Clarence Br Mra. Buckley Felkio Miss Louisa Gill Assistant Paymaster Guinness William Harwood, Esq. Mrs. Hill Lady Jardine; per Dr. C.

A. King; Miss P. M. Lyell Mrs. McCartney the Hon.

Mra. Vane. £2 EACH. Mrs. Campbell: Lady Forbes- Robertson Janet Horwond Mrs.

McCartney Mrs. Mortimer Neil. E1 58. Hon. Mrs.

Hannen Miss Moon. 1s. -Miss Behrens Browning Bull: the Very Rev. H. M.

Butler John Carlisle: Mrs. Calvert; B. C. Forder, Esq. Sir Charles Harris, K.C.B.: Anale, Viscountens Lifford Mrs.

Llewelyn Davies: the Bishop of Sor. wich: E. Rackham, Fag. Sanitas Company. Limited Mrs.

Springe. £1 E. F. Bonanquet Mrs. E.

E. Gordon Howell Henderson Sir W. J. Herschel, E. L.

Mias K. M. Joseph Mrs. Alan Males; Munro Norbury Miss Alice Sturgeon. 108.

-Miss Craig: A Esther Dumbleton; Anony 5a. Brideon: G. Wood: mous. Williams. 2s.

6d. -Anonymous. Contributions shoald be sent to the Hon. Treasaree, School Extension Fund, London (Royal Free Hospital) of Medicine for Women, Hunter-street, Brunswick -square, W.C CLASSICAL CONCERT SOCIETY. An excellent performance of Mr.

Frank Bridge's Sextet in flat for strings was the chief event in the ninth of the Classical Concert Society's concerts at Folian Hall yesterday afternoon. Miss Marjorie. Hayward, who is acting temporarily first violin of the English String Quartet, led this work, as well as the Quartet by Beethoven in A (Op. 18, No. 5) and the Quintet for strings in 0 by Mozart, which made up the programme.

The other members of the English String Quartet Mr. H. Kinze, Frank Bridge, and Ivor James), with Alfred Hobday (second viola) and Mr. Norman Salmond (second violoncello)' formed, with Miss Hayward, an admirably balanced and sympathetic body of interpreters. It is work which grows on one as it becomes familiar.

If the middle movement, adopting the plan which Brahms made still popular seems of outdistance alternating andante and allegro tempi, to the others in imaginative beauty, that does not prevent the appreciation of many beautiful things in the others. Such movement is of course paratively easy to write, because it implies direct contrast rather than sustaining power. musical The work 1 whole is a finely sustained piece of thought, and one was particularly glad of the opportunity af hearing it again so soon the which production of Mr. Bridge's remarkable string quartet, is shortly to be repeated. The Classical Concert Society's series will end next week with a programme of cantatas and instrumental works by J.

8. Bach. Notices of announcements at the following rates guinea for five lines or less, and five shillings for each additional line, line eight scorda, Manager, Private The London, may be left with The at the enumerated another column this page, THE LITERATURE OF COOKERY. EXHIBITION OF RARE BOOKS. RECIPES CENTURIES OLD.

It is a very seasonable idea on the part of Dr, C. T. Hagberg Wright to hold an exhibition, opening to-day, at the London Library, of a number of old and rare 1 books on the ever-interesting subject of cookery. Many famous collectors have devoted their attention to this subject, and none of them has formed a complete collection, for some of the books are not procurable. Even Mrs.

Joseph Pennell's collection, of which small selection is now on view at the London Library, apparently does not include "La Pastissier 1655, which is the rarest of all the Elzevirs, and of which the fine copy in the Hoe sale realized £240. But if Mrs: Pennell has not been fortunate enough to obtain a copy of the rarest book on the subject, she has managed to secure other rarities in various languages. There is, for instance, the very scarce first edition with date-1498- Apicius Apicius which is usually regarded the most ancient European book on cookery, although volume printed in Paris between 1490 and 1495, Le Viandier pour appareiller toutes manieres de Viandes Le Viandier de Taillevent is probably the earliest book on the subject. Mrs. Pennell also lends an undated edition of Apicius, which is supposed to be earlier than the 1498 book.

Of the several early books on cookery from Continental presses perhaps the most curious and interesting is the Opera of Bartholomeo Scappi, Venice, 1570, with a series of 27 plates showing the interior of the Pope's kitchens and the various cooking utensils. Mrs. Pennell's English books are naturally those which will attract most interest. She has procured a copy of the most famous of all these, though neither the rarest nor the earliest-Mrs. Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery made Plain and 1747.

This was George Augustus Sala's copy, which he valued at £100, but which at his sale in only fetched £10. Mrs. Glasse's book owes its repute largely to the famous piece of advice, "First catch your which it does not contain. Mrs. Glasse has been described as the Mrs.

Harris. of culinary litcrature, and a good deal of ence, in which Sala took part, appeared concerning the book in The Times of September, 1891. The Art of Cookery bad a very long life, for it was reprinted as late as 1824. A 16TH CENTURY TREASURIE." The exhibition includes a copy of one of the earliest English cookery books--John Partridge's Treasurie of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets," 1573, but there are earlier MS. books on cooking in existence; for instance, at Holkham there is one, the Noble Boke of Cookry," dating from about the reign.

of Edward with numerous recipes. Perhaps the rarest of Mrs. Pennell's English books is John Murrell's A Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen," 1617, of which apparently only two copies are known. There were two rival cookery books published in 1655, and two others in 1668. Mrs.

Pennell has good copies of all four. The two earlier ones, The Compleat Cook and The Queen's Closet Opened," were both anonymous, and both ran into several editions. Of the two issued in 1668 one was a later issue of The Queen's which is particularly interesting in that it contains the portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, which is often wanting. The second book was Sir Digby's Choise and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgency," the first edition it is mainly medical, but contains few recipes for cordials and preserving fruits. Bound up with it is The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digby, Opened," which is essentially a cookery book.

Mrs. Pennell has obtained fine copies of most of her cookery books, the rarity of which is accounted for by the fact that most of the editions were literally worn to pieces. She apparently draws the line at our old and standard friend Mrs. Beeton, perhaps the most popular and longest-lived of all books on the subject. One wonders if any collector has ever come across the first edition of this book SOME ANCIENT DISHES, The sumptuousness of their measures and the scope of the store-room of long ago would prevent these books from being of great service in these lean times for instance, in A Queen's Delight Royalist cookery book printed probably surreptitiously in 1655, has cake made in the way of the Royal princess, the Lady Elizabeth, daughter to King Charles the first," which requires half pecke of flower, halfe pinte of rose-water, a pinte of ale yest, a pinte of creame, six eggs, four pounds of currants, one-half pound of and' so forth.

Sometimes, however, one comes across a more homely touch. In The English Housewife" (1631) is found an appreciation of the value of oatmeal and suggestions for its use. Having spoken of its use as thickening for meate pottage, milke pottage, or any thick or else thinne grewell whatsoever," the writer says Also there is made of it both thicke and thin eaten cakes, which are very pleasant in taste and much esteemed but it it be mixed with fine wheste-meale then it maketh most dainty oste cake, either thicke or thin, such as no prince in the world but hare them served to his table: also this small oat-meale mixed with blood and the liver of either Sheep Calfe or Swine maketh that pudding which is called the Haggas of Haggus, of whose goodnesse it is vain to boast, because there is hardly to be found man that doth not affect them. And. lastly, from this small oat-mcale by oft steeping it in water and cleaning it and then boyling it to a thick and stiff telly la made that excellent dish of meate which is so esteetned of In the west parts of this kingdome which they call Wash-brew, and in Cheshire and Lancashire they call it Flamery or Flummery.

RAGOO AND POTATO PUDDING." In the first edition of Mrs. Glasse's Art of Cookery there is the following recipe To ragoo a leg of all the skin and fat off. cut it very tin the right way of the grain; then butter your stew pan and shake some four into it slice half a lemon and half an onion, cut them very small, little bundle of sweet herbs, and a blade of mice; pat all together with your meat into the pan. stir it 1 minute or two, then put in sty spoonfuls of and have ready anchory mine'd small; mix it with some butter and four, stir all together for six minutes and then dish it up. A potatoe padding which sounds excellent and ought to be capable of inexpensive treatment by substituting margarine for the butter and desiccated or frozen eggs for the fresh, is also from Mrs.

Glasse's book Take quart of potatoes, boil them soft, peel and mast them with the back of a spoon, and rub them thronch sieve, to have them fine and half a pound of fresh butter melted. half pound of fine them well till they are very smooth, beat sis whites and all, stir and class of mck brandy, You add hail carrans, ball it half an hour, melt batter with a of vine and sweeten with sugar and You may in a dish, with put paste all round the dish at the bottom. THE WATERLOO BUFFET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. I be allowed to correct any misapprehension which may arise relating to Lady Brassey's letter in your issue of to day? The London Society for.

Women's Suffrage has now definitely withdrawn from the organization of the Waterloo Buffet, and has DO official connexion with it whatever. Lady Brassey's letter was sent out from the offices of the London Society, which had undertaken the clerical work until the station premises were available. In future all communications should be addressed Lady Brassey, care of the Station Master, Waterloo Station. Yours truly, EDITH PALLISER. London Society for Women's Suffrage, 68, Victoria street, Westminster, 8.W., Deo.

8. MiStreSses AND SERVANTS. (See also pages 1, 15, and 16.) For the convenience of ladies, facilities have been provided in various establishments in London whereby Servants who reply their advertisements in Che Times may be interviewed by appointment. A. Lady Expert in attendance from 10 to 6 o'clock daily at the undermentioned addresses to advise and assist in drafting Servants Wanted, Birth, Marriage, Death, Personal, and other private The Times Book Jobs Barker High Barney Lad, IrI.

Address for Expert TELEPHONE CHRISTMAS IN GREAT ALBERT HALL SALE OPENED. At the Albert Hall yesterday Princess Alexander of Teek, who was accompanied by the Duchess of Albany, opened a monster entertainment called Christmas in Wartime." The affair has been arranged, under the patronage of the Queen, Queen Alexandra, and several other members of the Royal Family, in aid of the funds of the Professional Classes War Relief Conneil. The professional classes have suffered very severely in many cases through the conditions imposed by the war, and it was very pleasant to see so large and clearly generousminded a crowd of people present. But then, charity apart, the Albert Hall is well worth visiting just now for its own sake and Christmas in. Wartime will have been so widely talked about by now that still larger crowds nay be pected there to-day and to-morrow between the opening at 11 in the morning and the closing at 10 at night.

The great floor is covered with stalls and booths full of fascinating things to buy and give away for Christmas presents. The colours of the Allied nations decorate the circles in the boxes tea may be had, and luncheon and dinner are served at reasonable prices in the gallery. And all the while, besides the buying A and selling and so forth, there is music or entertainment of some kind going on. The sale part of the festival is divided into five departments. The Hospital under the presidency of the Princess Royal, include clothing, amusements, country produce, flowers (with MIle.

Adeline to sell them), and many other things. The Fighting Forces section, under Princess Arthur of Connaught, offers not only clothing, food, and necessaries, but books and music. Then compes 8 peculiarly interesting department of articles made by the disabled soldiers and sailors. Of this section Princess Victoria is the president, and the objects for sale include many beautiful things more attractive than the wooden Christmas and the quaint and delightful animals cut out of wood. The fourth section, presided over by Princess Alexander of Tock, comprises things needed by British prisoners of war -warm clothes, toilet things, books, tobacco, food and the fifth, under Princess Victoria of SchleswigHolstein, is full of lovely dolls and toys, of clothing, needlework, jewelry, and so forth, which are just the things for present-giving in the home circle.

SKETCHES BY FAMOUS ARTISTS. This is the section which contains what is, from one point of view, the most interesting stall in the bazaar-Mrs. Ralph Peto's collection of drawings and etchings. There are so many choice things here that it would be well worth the while of connoisseurs and collectors to drop in. Mr.

John S. Sargent has (probably for the first time in his career) given sketches from his sketch-book to be sold for the good object. There is a drawing by Burne-Jones. There are specimens of Max Beerbohm, some excellent Orpens, John, a Walter Bayes drawings by MacEvoy, Muirhead Bone, Albert Rothenstein, John Nash, Pryde, Ned Yates, Havard Thomas, and many other wellknown artists. But, if this collection of pictures is the clou of the fair, the attractions are so many that it would take pages to describe them and the notable people who were selling of buying yesterday would demand whole Meanwhile, the list of performers adding to the entertainment of the company included Mr.

Arthur Wontner, Miss Margaret Cooper, and Miss Elsie Spain. And besides the main hall, there are what might be called "side-shows" of Belgium and of Serbia, tea-rooms of various and altogether there are allurements enough to occupy long afternoon and a good deal of the evening as well. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. OFFICER'S PROVISION FOR PEACE CELEBRATION. CAPTAIN PHILIP COLLINa, 7th Ride Brigade, partner in the firm of Peake, Bird, Collins, and solicitors, of Bedford-row, W.C., who was killed in France or Belgium on July 30, aged 32, has left property of the value of £8,346, of which £8,340 is net personalty.

The testator to the Rugby Club. Notting Dale $50 to the Old Ragbeians' Society and £110 to be divided among 11 ficers who shall 1 alive at the declaration of peace of the present war. a alight remembrance of me and of the many happy days and the kin shown me when I had the honour to assist in forming a new battalion of the London Rifle Brigade." He also left $150 for the clerks in his Arm on August 11, 1914. Among other latest wills are the following Gross Mrs. MATILDA ISABEL Brancs, of Lincoln Homs, Basilstreet, 8.W..

widow of Maj. Thomas Cha. Brings $50,256 Mr. RAMPION MARRIAGE, aged 73, of Broomdeld, ford, miller and farmer, a member of the firm of W. H.

Marriage and Sons 37.702 MAJOR RAYMOND HAMILTON-GRACE, 13th Hussars, of Knole, Frant, Sasses, who ww awarded the Croix de Chevalier de Lexin d'Honneur for in: the Field, sad killed near Borgnes, Belgium. on August 28,353 Mr. HENRY WINTER, aged 68,. of Pearith, Cumberland, of the firm of Messrs. Pattinson and Winter, grocers and provision merchants 26.603 CAPTAIN the HON.

GERALD Lacon, South Staffordshire Regiment, of Patshull House, Wolverhampton, second son of the Bart of Dartmouth, who was killed at the Dardanelles on August 9, aged 32 19,658 Mr. HENRY OSBORNE FAWCETT BUTCHER, retired medical practitioner, of Ware, left, on the deceams of his sister, £200 for charitable purposes, and £100 and of £78 to an old servant 15,380 Mr. JOIN DURIAN, aged of Kineston-on-Thames and of Surbiten, solleitor, the last person to the tipstaff. before the Lord Chief Justice custom that abolished in 1874) 18,700 COLONEL, ARTHUR RICHARD COLT HAMILTON, in of the 6th East Lancaabire of Beitrim, Tyrom, Ireland, who died on August 10 from wounds received at the Dardanelles ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-DAY. Swedish journalists visit the Fleet and dine with the Edinburgh Corporation, Lord Rosebery present.

Smithfield Club Cattle Show, Agricultural Hall, 9 GIn Sale for Allied farmers, 2 Cleveland Polling. Albert Hall, 11-10. Lady Lagard distributes prizes at Princess Belens College, Baling, 1 The of the War before and after with Special Reference to Finance A. J. Chapman, Institute of Bankom, Great Elall of River Plate House, 6.

International Law as by the War: Sir Job London School of 6.80. With the Russian Pilgrims to Johangier Hall, University of Mr. C. G. Claremont on The Montencel Method," Carton Production of Mr.

E. A. Vachell's comedy, Who de He? Harmarket Theatre, 6. Daly's, Criterion, Duke of York's, Garrick, Rora'ty. Palladium, Cinema, Performance by the Drainatio Cinb of The The Rest Cure in aid of Wounded Allies Relief Committee Court Theatre, 2.30.

Royal Academy of Genflamen of Verona, Hall, Shaftesbury Theatre Carmen, 2 Jiacci, 8. London String Quartet's Bollas Hall, $.15, Gufidhall School of Violia vocal recital by pupils at A. J. Blocombe Helen Armatrong, War All-British Concert; Stelaway Hall, 3.90. Concert, 11, Lady Coghian's bridge Rita Hotel, Guild of Poor Chapter Howe Southwark, carols and Cathedral, of Ms.

G. P. Karie and Daphne S6, Peter's, 12.30. Sale of. the late Wigan's collection of Sale of the late Mfr.

George Ibrary Sothebr'a Lighting-pp Time, 4.50; in London, 4.20. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Das. 1 At 2.43, Parliament BIll to be Finance No. Bill.

Increase of Rent and Mortgage 66 OUR DAY" IN LIVERPOOL. Liverpool celebrated Our Day" Some 1,300 ladies made a collections throughout 1 City and secured very generous support. One Red Cross Bags sold by the local Society for C25. Miss Mather, acting Lady Mayorets, paid sound visits to the exchanges, and the Wholesale Pruit Brokers Exchange auction of flags was conducted in her presence and over £100 obtained. An Our Day beld at Midland Adelphi Hotel.

provided by cheque for 860 collected as the Saturday, A USEFUL PRESENT For Friends at the Front most useful gilt for friends on Active Service is the small Pocket Medicine Case provided by Savory and Moore, containing medicines in the form of thin gelatine sheets or lamels. Each sheet is divided into small squares representing doses, so that an accurate dose of any particular medicine required can be cut or torn off like postage stamp and taken without the least trouble or risk. Thus, complete supply of medicines is actually contained in a small letter case, and the risks which attend the carrying of bottles on the person are entirely avoided. GELATINE LAMELS. The Lamels are highly praised by use them, and are proving of the possible service to officers on Active Service, ft is frequently remarked that no kit is plete without case of Savory and Moore's Gelatine Lamels.

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