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VOL. CLXV. No. 178 Overseas News for New World Readers Re-excavation of Roman Camp At Birrens Will Be Undertaken Bow Used at Battle of Flodden In Archers' Hall in Edinburgh 'tf- Lord Duveen Shown Honor By Sculptors Unemployed Stoker Turns Psychologist Edinburgh. It will interest Scottish antiquaries and historians to learn that a movement is on foot to have a re-excavation of the famous Roman camp at Birrens, in Mid-dlebie parish, Annandale, writes Dr.

J. King Hewison, in the Scotsman. This has been started under the auspices of the Dumfries and Galloway antiquaries, under the leadership of Mr. R. C.

Reid. oi Cleuchbrae. The work will be undertaken by Eric Burley, F.S.A., according as the necessary funds are forthcoming. This extensive camp, part of which remains unexcavated under the railway there, was in 1895-6 carefully laid bare, and wai productive of magnificent relics oi Roman civilization. The work was done at the instance of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, as described in their "Transactions" (1894-5 and later).

The excavations and finds proved that Birrens had been a great military camp and settlement in northern Britain, a northern outpost beyond the Wall of Hadrian ten miles distant. It lies three miles south of Bir-renswark Hill (939 feet), an ancient British fort occupied by Agricola inl Edinburgh. Members of the Old Edinburgh Club recently visited the Archers' Hall in Buccleuch street, Edinburgh, where they were received by Sir Hew Dalrymple, K.C.V.O.. president of Council, and Colin Black, W.S., secretary of the King's Bodyguard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers. Sir Hew Dalrymple welcomed the party, and Mr.

Black was their guide over the many interesting treasures of the building. In the lower room are many portraits and sketches showing the old uniforms of the Company, and one of George IV landing at Leith, from which time the Archers became the King's Bodyguard for Scotland. On the stairway was seen a case of old bows, one of which was used at the Battle of iflodden. The upper hall or diningroom is remarkable for its fine collection of portraits by Martin and others, and especially for the world-famous portrait of Dr. Nathaniel Spens by Raburn.

Many of the portraits are interesting because of their subjects, among whom are four Dukes and two presidents, the Earl of Stair and his son, Sir Hew Dalrymple, the present holder of the office. There were also shown two of the famous silver arrows, prizes for shooting, one of which, "the Musselburgh Arrow," is of great age. The party walked from the Archers' Hall south to Braid Place, from which there is an entrance to Sciennes Hill House, now divided into working-class houses. The honorary secretary, the Rev. Will Burnett, spoke of the religious and literary associations of the house.

The name Sciennes is derived from the Convent of Saint Catherine of Siena, which was erected upon a part of the Burgh Muir. The connection between the Sciennes Hill House (or Sciennes Hall) and the Convent is closer than is sometimes remembered, and the occuDants of the tenements sur London. The gold medal for "distinguished services to sculpture." awarded to Lord Duveen by the Royal Society of British Sculptors, was presented to him at an informal gathering, over which the president Sir William Reid Dick, R.A., presided, at the Arts Club. Sir William explained that the medal introduced in 1923, and the highest distinction British sculptors can bestow was not instituted solely in recognition of an artist's work, but was awarded to those who rendered particular and distinguished services to British sculpture. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded in the latter category.

He mentioned that Lord Duveen had provided new setting for the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum and a new gallery for sculpture at the Tate Gallery. Famqus Cutty Sark Will Not Be Sold Weymouth. The future of the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark has now been decided. In a statement Mrs. W.

H. Dow-man, of Wyke Lodge, Weymouth, widow of Captain Dowman, who is now the owner of the clipper, said: "The Cutty Sark is not for sale. She is going to be kept exactly as she is now. I have had lots of letters from people all over the world wanting to buy her, but she is not being sold. That is definite.

"I was approached by Adrian Seligman, who is trying to buy a sailing ship for a voyage of adventure, but I have told nim that the Cutty Sark is not going to be sold. I have nothing more to say on the matter." Captain Dowman bought the Cutty Sark in 1922, and since then she has been used at Falmouth as a training ship. The vessel, which was launched in 1869, won fame as a tea clipper in the China trade and as a wool clipper in the Australian trade. Adrian Seligman, to whom Mrs. Dowman referred, is the son of a Wimbledon scientist.

Photo by Aliorlitid British Hatlai. Inc. LOCH KATRINE, almost wholly in Perthshire, is eight miles from Callender. and is eight miles long and less than one mile broad. It is the source of Glasgow's water supply.

In the lake is Ellen's Isle, which is shown in the above picture. 4 Cigarettes Weekly And Lipstick Opposed Man "Threw Away" His Nationality Hull. Daniel John Maloney. 53, transport worker, who was charged recently at Hull, where he was Burns's Pew at Dumfries Attention has been called by a Burns enthusiast to the fact that the eld square pew in which Burns sat when worshipping in St. Michael's Church, Dumfries, is stored away in the cellar of the church.

He has suggested that the pew be replaced in the church, and it is understood that he has offered to bear the cost of replacement. Antique Gold Cup From Airthrey Castle Subject of Speculation Milton's Cottage Imperilled By Neighboring Modern Shops Kingston. An allegation that four days before her marriage her husband made her sign an undertaking "not to nag or annoy or be suspicious" of her husband, was made at Kingston recently by Mrs. uiane iviary iummings wnen sne asked for a separation order against the husband, Sydney Cum-mings, of Coombe-Iane, Kingston, on the ground of persistent cruelty. The agreement also stated, "I also agree not to accept alimony or monetary consideration or property in the event of separation or divorce." Salter Nicholls told the Bench that Mr.

Cummings also laid down a code of conduct for his wife, limiting her to four cigarettes a week and refusing to allow her to use lipstick. The husband, in evidence, denied persistent cruelty to his wife and said he struck her on only three occasions with open hand. He had complained about the way his wife ran the house and there were quarrels about money. Regarding the cigarette stipulation, ummings saia nis wiie used to oe smoking all day, so he told her that sne snouid not smoke more than five a day. A separation was granted to the wife, and her husband was ordered to pay her 2 a week and to pay 7 7s.

costs. Officer Who Joined The Army in 1854 Bournemouth. Lieutenant-Colonel Cotton Edwin Theobald, late The 55th Foot (The Border Regi ment) and the 20th Foot (Lancashire Fusiliers), who lives at Sandbanks, Bournemouth, recently attained his 100th birthday. He is the oldest of a family of 22, and has a brother aged 88. Colonel Theobald is a remarkable man for his age.

He wears glasses only when he reads, takes a keen interest in local and world affairs and is as active as a man many years his junior. Every day he breakfasts at nine and before lunch goes for short walk. After lunch a brief rest, and then Colonel Theobald makes his daily 'bus journey to the Bournemouth Club, where he takes tea. Colonel Theobald has vivid memories of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. He was commissioned in 1854 and saw active service on the North-West Indian Frontier.

Bolton An unemployed stoker of Bolton, who served in the navy at Zeebrugge and Jutland, studied psychology at the local welfare centre and won a scholarship to Reading University. He is Peter Jackson, aged 43, of Moorland Grove, Bolton, and his case came before Bolton Town Council recently when Councillor A. J. Pens-ton protested against the Education Committee's refusal to grant 2 towards his expenses. Alderman J.

F. Steele said he and Councillor A. Pilling would pay the 2. Mr. Jackson won the scholarship with an essay on "Group Mind." He will continue his studies in psychology at Reading and hopes to become a teacher.

While there his wife and family will be kept by Bolton Unemployment Assistance Board. "Dandies on Deposit" Saw Racing at Ascot Manchester. Nearly a third of the men at Ascot wore borrowed clothes, according to the "Tailor and Cutter," which this week condemns the growing practice. "The perfume from the banks of exotic blooms did little to counteract the smell of mothballs which exuded from the Victorian garb which perambulated the turf," declares the critic. "One of the reasons for this disturbing fact is that fewer men are replacing their morning clothes when they become old or ill-fitting and the second reason is the growth of the practice of clothes-hiring.

"The number of firms supplying clothes on hire for formal occasions has multiplied several times since the war, and now one firm alone boasts that it, can equip four thousand men at one time with morning clothes." "Dandies on deposit" is the journal's description of the men who attend Ascot in borrowed plumage, and the journal appeals to the trade to put an end to the practice. mounted by a small figure of Jupiter, with thunderbolt and eagle attributes forming the cover. The lower half is supported upon the crowned head of Neptune, poised, trident in hand, upon the back of a sea-horse. The upper flat surface of the base of the cup about the sea-horse is embossed and chased into the semblance of a sea in which mermaids and dolphins are represented swimming. Below this, the domed foot is embossed in low-relief and chased with a frieze re presenting Adam and Eve naming the beasts in the Garden of Eden.

In endeavoring to find out the probable date when the Airthrey Cup was made and its place of ori gin, Mr. Beard says that from the map engraved on the upper part and from the evidence afforded by the fashion of the cup itself it may be safely said that it dates from about 1560, or at the moat a year or two later. All the evidence warrants the belief that the cup is of South Ger man make, and tne balance is in favor of Nuremberg as its place of origin. It is, he adds, only a cup that a prince of the Empire might have owned, and bearing in mind the very generous patronage ex tended by the Wittclsbachs lo the goldsmiths of Nuremberg, it would seem not improbable that the cup was made for some reigning member of the House of Bavaria. Imported Angels In Nightdresses BlackDOol Criticism of some min isters for huried and badly read burial services was made by the president, R.

J. Brown, of Ham- mersmitn, recently, at me joint conference at Blackpool of the National Association of Cemetery and Crematorium Superintendents and the Federation of Cremation Authorities. "Beautiful passages are slurred over or entirely omitted, words are mumbled or inaudible, and the service is hastened through in such a manner that relatives and friends arc often- left in a state of utter and painful bewilderment," said Mr. Brown. C.

Cook, Sheffield, said cemeteries represented something more in our national life than mere dumping-grounds for bodies. A. Blackburn, Parks and Cemeteries Superintendent, Blackpool, said that monumental masons had protested against the regulation at Blackpool's new cemetery prohibiting the use of marble, and allowing memorial stones to be only four feet high, "but," he added, "there is just as great an opportunity for monumental masons to exercise their art on a stone four feet high as in importing angels in nightdresses and sticking them on pedestals." "Let us get away as far as possible from the old order which has permitted cemeteries to develop Into glorified monumental yards, said L. G. Godseff (Liverpool).

Lawn cemeteries, he said, would do away with the use of concrete Jam jars, artificial wreaths, and all the Impedimenta which helped to destroy the atmosphere of restfulncss. Sir Edward Parry Has Married Again London, Sir Edward Parry, the former County Court judge, has married for tha second time, at 72, The wedding took place at Seven-ohki (Kent) Register Office. Hii bride was Miss Ellen Ann Pace, whose age was given as 51. The ceremony was kept a close secret and took place by special licence. Sir Edward retired tn 1927.

He had been County Court judge at Manchester and Lambeth, lie Is Mso wll known as an author. Ills first wife. Helen, daughter of Mr, Thomas Hart, ot Grange-over-Sands, died la 1032. near the end oi the first century, beneath which two Roman quadrated camps were added for his leaguer. This fort, later a beacon, dominated all the Solway region into Cumberland and Galloway.

Birrens seems to be a Phoenician word for a fort, an interesting survival. Probably, a water supply necessitated the transference of this Roman camp, later, to a junction of the Mein and Middlebie streams, in Middlebie parish, where the, peasantry styled it Birrens also, in plural form. The excavations already alluded to indicate that this new extensive circumvallated camp had every necessary Roman military equipment, from the praesidia to the stables of the cavalry part of the of one thousand soldiers. The many altars and other tablets found by the excavators record the names of the cohorts stationed there Germans, and some Belgae. or Tun-grians.

The latter gave the camp its name of Blato-bulgium plat of the Belgians. The coins found indicate occupation down to the end of the fifth century. The famous Sixth Legion also was stationed there. What adds importance to this also is the probable fact that Birrens was one of the earliest Christian settlements in Albion, or Northern Britain, and the centre of a Romanized British settlement which gave birth to both St. Ninian and St.

Patrick, and also, through them, the Church of Scotland. Both these missionaries were local Romano-Britons, without doubt. And Patrick's confession that he was a native of "Bonaven Taberniae" easily translated out of old Celtic into "the mouth of the river of the two Birrens" where his father Cal-pornus was a decurio as well as a Christian presbyter, points to this Roman camp both as a Roman Curia and an adjoining Christian village at let in the fourth century (3.T9-461). A friend of my youth, Mr. John Leach (1788-1873), who, as a dyke-builder, was permitted to take the stones out of this camp to repair the farm-steading in the district about 1810.

informed me that he was certain that beyond this camp there had been a large village. A classical student in his youth. Mr. Leach buried the carved stones, rather than destroy them. At that time Carlyle, as he states in his Reminiscences, used to visit the camp and try to decipher the inscriptions on the altars and tablets then exposed, no doubt, by Mr.

Leach. The object of the proposed excavation is to discover probably still older foundations and finds indicating the earliest foundation of the camn. This is of great im portance to students of history. One of the most recent biographies of St. Patrick is entitled "1st.

Patrick, A.D. 180." The author, the Rev John Roche Ardell, LL.D., main tains the thesis that this Sucat, or St. Patrick, was a native of the second century, as his writings in dicate. He completely negatives the learned conclusions of earlier biographers, Professor Bury and the Rev. Dr.

White, as to St. Patrick's age, A.D. 389-461. The proposed researches at Birrens might throw some light upon these and other facts regarding the first foundation of the Christian Church in Northern Britain; and it is to be hoped that the proposal win have a successful issue and encouragement. Trials of Men Who Made First Range-Finders London.

The struggles of two young and impecunious University Professors 48 years ago to design and build the first satisfactory range-finders for military use are recalled by the golden wedding of Dr. and Mrs. William Stroud, of Glasgow, the announcement of which was published recently. Dr. Stroud's partner was the late Professor Archibald Barr, the two men having been brought together in 188.1 by appointments at Leeds.

In May. 1888. Professor Barr noticed a War Office advertisement calling for an infantry range-finder, preferably a single observer instrument which should be accurate to within 4 per cent, at 1,000 yards. The two men made no preliminary calculations, but sot to work immediately. Dr.

Stroud still recalls how their first test instrument was a "ghastly failure," how he once offered to sell his share in the partnei ship's devices to Dr. Barr for 6d and how he took to lecturing in the villages round Leeds toraise funds. Their supreme good fortune he states, is that financial embarrassment never overtook both partners simultaneously. Their first War Office trial at Aldershot was a failure. Even when the Admiralty ordered six instruments from them, after a successful sea trial in 1801, Dr.

Stroud wrote that "we shall complete these Instruments and spend the rest of our lives keeping 4him in order." Yet. during the War period alone, over 27,000 range, finders of one of the Barr and Stroud types were produced, In addition to many bigger Instruments for naval use. Until hit death In 1031. Dr. Barr remnlnrd chairman nf the great undertaking which still makes these instruments, Dr, Stroud, at the age Of 78, holds the lame position today, The Lunatic's Right Every lunatic' has the right by statute to correspond with the Lord Chancellor.

"And." said Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, in his presidential address to the Holdsworth Club of the Faculty of Law of the University of Birmingham, "I am sorry to say a good many of them avail themselves of it." shopping parade and one would wish to look no longer from the house where "Paradise Lost" was finished in the year 1665 and "Paradise Regained" begun. Tiie front windows of Milton's Cottage, which turns its back on the village of Chalfont, and shows its side to the roadway, have always looked on to this wide field, sloping and elm-bordered. To mar it by shops or cut-to-pattern villas would be unmannerly, unnecessary tragic. Athough in mid-Victorian days a brick cottage was built at one side of Milton's house, the field on the other side has stayed inviolate. It is three acres in extent; the Trustees of the Cottage require 1,200 to purchase it, and they have issued an appeal signed by the Rev.

H. O. Fearnley-Whittingstall (Rector of Chalfont) and H. H. Law, the hon.

secretary and treasurer of the Trust. The Cottage, kept as a Milton museum, is the only residence of the poet now remaining. It was purchased in 1887 as a memorial to Queen Victoria, and the Trustees administer it under a scheme drawn up by the Charity Commissioners The many thousands who have visited Chalfont. and who know (hp "pretty its garden, the field be side it, and the massive trees, will cry sname on any change. "Shops by Milton's Cottage?" they will say.

"The Paradise is lost indeed! Served 50 Years With The Morning Post London. An unusual ceremony took place in the Morning Post Of fices recently, when F. Till, chief clerk, was presented by the mem- Ders oi me stall in all departments with a set of bowls and an album of signatures to mark his completion of 50 years' service with the paper. The Managing Editor, who made the presentations, paid a tribute to Mr. nil services.

He said that his record was a most remarkable one, and that such a long and honorable career spoke for itself. Mr. Till, returning thanks, described the developments of the Morning Post during the last half-century, and recalled the days when there were no telephones, typewriters, and lifts, no motor-'buses or cars. Boys on ponies were in common use by the telegraph com. panies.

he said, and the ordinary form of passenger transport in London was the "growler," the hansom cab, and the horse-drawn tram. Porter Poet Retires From G.W.R. Service Bath. Henry Chappel, the railway poet, of Bath, who gained, international fame with his war poem "The Day," has, on medical advice, resigned his position as a porter with the Great Western Railway Company. He has recently suffered a long period of ill-health.

Mr. Chapnell, who Is 63, has been in the railway company's service sinre 1891. His poem, "The Day," brought him congratulations from many famous men. Rudyard Kipling made a special call at the G.W.R station to compliment him, and thus began a friendship which lasted until Kipling's death. Cannot Read ot 24 Prestatyn A twcnty-four-year-old witness at Prestatyn Police Court announced that he was unable to read.

He was Robert Owen Twist, of Rhuridlan. "If they could not read English I could understand it," commented the chairman, J. C. Beattlo. "But thre must be something wrong when people come here and lell us they cannot read at all." rounding a silent backgreen, reached by a tortuous passage irom a common stair, can join hands with the ladies of the order of Saint Catherine, away back in the early years of the sixteenth century.

In the second decade of that ppntiirv Sir John Crawford, one of the Prebendaries of the Parish Church of saint unes, xeueo mree and a half acres from the town, tirVtnca Pnunpi 1 lnrs penprnuslv threw into the purchase one acre and one- qUarier OI a pal iu.au: uuc-aiA- teenth of an acre mihi carilatiye jtnoturvi qc Sir said. This land may still be traced in an ir regular piece oi grouna, wnose boundaries are Braid Place. Cause-wayside, and Sciennes Place. On this piece of ground a chapel was built, and dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist. It may be added as an item of interest in a spot which has many literary associations that Sir John presented for use in the chapel a printed copy of a Breviary, according to the Sarum use.

This was in turn presented to the University of Edinburgh at its foundation in 1580 by Master Clement Little, and is still to be found in the Library of the University. It bears in the script of c. 1500, and tUa rf Sir himself i Liber domini Johannis Craufurd. Tradition is proDaDiy accurate when it identifies the site of the chapel with that of Sciennes Hill House or Sciennes Hall, erected in 1741, a building with no great architectural pretensions, which became converted into a tenement of working men's houses, prosaically denominated 7 Braid Place. It was in Sciennes Hill House at the time the residence of Dr.

Adam Ferguson. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh that Sir Walter Scott met Robert Burns during the visit of the latter to Edinburgh in the winter of 1786-87. Scott was then only a youth of fifteen, but in a letter, written many years afterwards to Lockhart. he describes the incident. The room in which this meeting took place looks into Braid Place (then the back of the house), and Kahiunn turn hnnsps: the IS UlVlUtU I.

flat above that still contains a heavy cornice. "From tne nacK-green me original front may be seen, with ranges of windows, and a mark in the wall where the entrance staircase led into the house. P.L.A. to "Reopen" Canal Built by King Canute London Part of an old canal, built, according to legend, by King Canute, is to he "reopened" at once by the Port of London Authority. The canal, which is 600 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 10 feet deep, runs between two of the great new timber sheds, covering an area of 48 acres, now being erected in the Lavender Yard of the Surrey Commercial Docks.

According to Stowe, King Canute in 1016 attempted to besiege the city, and "with a great navie came up to London, and on the South of the Thames, caused a Trench to be cast, through the which his ships were towed into the west side of the Bridge Exactly a century and a half later, in 1176. the same channel was repaired and used again to divert the course of the river while the first stone London Bridge was being built to replace the old wooden one which had been destroyed by fire. The trench began, writes Stowe, "as is supposed East about Radciiffe, and ending in the West about Pat- ricksey, now termed Batersey. "All the evidence points to tne fact that our canal runs along the course occupied by the commence ment of King Canute's, which was, of course, far longer," an official of the Port of London Authority in formed a Morning Post representative. "The 600 feet that we are remaking will not be used, however, for bringing up 'navies' to besiege London, but merely to facilitate the unloading and loading of timber Dnrges.

Twenty-five thousand tons of earth have been shifted and S.OOO tons of cement used in the construction of the new "trench." which will be ready for tha great annual timber rush which each year at this time floods the Surrey Commercial Dock with wood from all parti oi tna world. "Dead" Soldiers In Carnival A tableau of two dead soldiers entangled In barbed wire and wearing gas masks apprsrrd in carnival procession at Carlisle re cently, it was enirrea oy tne war-lull Trace Council and caused considerable adverse comment, born, with landing as an alien in the United Kingdom without the permission of an immigration offi cer, said he went to the United States and told the authorities he was an American. He was there for more than twenty years. The Stipendiary Magistrate. Mr.

J. R. Macdonald, said the British looked upon their nationality as a precious thing. If a man threw it away, as Maloney seemed to have done, he was no longer one of them. Maloney was remanded in custody for eight days, during which ie might, if he wished, make inquiries as to how he might become a British citizen again.

Criticism of Public Men Upheld by Court I Dundee. Sheriff Malcolm, of Dundee, stated in his court recently that it was established beyond ques tion that the fullest liberty and licence, even to the extent of hostile or denunciatory language, was permissible in comment or criticism of a public man and his acts and conduct in public affairs so long as such comment or criticism related only to a man in his public capacity and to his actions in public affairs. He was dismissing an action for 500 damages brought by George F. Caldwell, a waste merchant, against Arthur J. Bayne, a railway engine driver, and Printers.

all with local addresses, in respect of alleged slanderous statements concerning Mr. Caldwells public action contained in a leaflet issued by the defendants to electors be fore polling day. The Sheriff also ordered Mr. Caldwell to pay the defendants expenses. At the election Caldwell, a Mod erate candidate and Public Assist ance Convenor, was defeated by ayne, nis laDor opponent.

Pigeon Holds Up Traffic Manchester. A pigeon which flew underneath a tram-car in Mosley street was responsible for a hold-up in traffic which lasted several minutes at a busy time. Many people tried to drive the pigeon out of its hiding place, but it remained there until someone threw sand under the tram-car. This frightened the pigeon away. on his back, with arms behind his head, to face the sun.

"I hope this weather goes on," he said. "I've got 20 lb. of strawberries nearly ready for picking and they help to pay the rent. Gardening is a good thing, you know, when you only work two days out of seven." And then, grimly, "It's difficult to want to work, after five days above ground each week." Half a mile behind him the spire ot a church fought vainly with th pit-head to command the sky. Below that church there was coal; a little to the left of it In a disused slaughter-house they were preparing tea.

"Come and see it," said the Rev. George Fry, Rector of Eat Kirkby for the past nine years. The slaughter-house itself was now a sunny room, in which long trestle tables, made by the men themselves, were laden with pleasant fare, Next door, in the Club's workroom, Mr. Fry pointed to some altar rails. "The members are building me a Lady Chapel on the church," he said, "and I'm making these for it myself.

It ought to bo finished In a few months." He did not add that he was sacrificing hii holiday to superintend tho work. Outside a sudden babel of engrr talk and the thud of cricket bogs told that the match was over. "Only beaten us by seven runs," announced Mr, Evans, hit broad face beaming. "Not bud!" India Office and miners sat down to tea, talking amiably of revengo next yenr. Another annual event was over, but the Centre remained to bring color and Ufa and some happiness to men who havt not enough to do.

Chalfont St. Giles (Bucks) John Milton's Cottage bounded by. modern shops; the "pretty box" of the Seventeenth Century wedged among incongruous buildings; the spoiling of this Buckinghamshire village, still grave and tranquil in its mood, where the last lines of "Paradise Lost" were written. This is the fate that threatens Chalfont, the fate that a few who are jealous for the beauty and the fame of the village are seeking now to siem. according to the Morning Post correspondent.

Chalfont, in spite of modern accretions, remains a "haunt of ancient peace." Milton's Cottage, preserved lovingly, must be as comely today as it was in the year of the Plague when the poet came for shelter to a country vale. This afternoon, beside the flower garden, elms tall and aged, cast their heavy shadows. I smelt grass, newly-cut. Chalfont slumbered in the heat. Three visitors to the Cottage for a moment in the garden to look over the hedge to the sloping grassland beyond.

It is a view to remember, one cherished for centuries Yet. without immediate action, Milton's Cottage may lose it and become submerged in a new and unwanted building scheme. Then the elms would sway and fall; the field, torn into building sites, might end as a semi-suburban Architect Gives His Version of Art Manchester Addressing members of the Manchester Luncheon Club at the Midland Hotel recently, Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect, deplored the ugliness of present-day civilization and envisaged a more beautiful world in the future. In less than a hundred years, he said, the population of these islands was going to be no more than five millions. That figure had impressive authority, yet no official notice had been taken of it so far.

If it were true, the world of our grandchildren would be changed out of all recognition. He felt, however, that we had no business to have posterityeven so small unless we were sure that it would transcend our half-alive selves. In that more exclusive population of the future there would be a greater hungering after art and loveliness. We in this, age were too easily contented with things that were mean, second-rate, and un-beautiful. We were not asking enough of life.

"I feel," he said, "that this is a might-have-been civilization which has taken the wrong turning. The question is whether we have got the vision and the will to put it on the right road again." We should recognize that the making of beauty was one of the greatest satisfactions of life. "Shall we ever understand," he added, "that art is not some oily nonsense in a gill frame, but the right making of what needs making, whether It be an aeroplane, an opera, a building, or a ballet." Art was nothing more than the fine realization of rational requirements. Old Sussex Form for Sole Foxhunt Manor Farm, Waldron, which dates back to the time of Edward the Confessor, is In the market for sale with stabling and about 150 acres of land. The property is referred to In many old records.

In 1327 the Abbot of Robcrtsbrldge was given a decree that he should "hold his messuage and land by feoffment and suit of Ralph de Camoys, Knight, at the Court of Foxhunt." About 1485 the owner of Foxhunt supported the Duke of Buckingham against the King and the Crown accordingly granted the property to John, Duke ni isonojK. nas since changed hands many times. Edinburgh A very valuable art treasure in the form of a Renaissance gold cup, which once belonged to a prominent Scottish collector, is described and illustrated in the July number of The Connoisseur. At present not much is known of the history of the cup, apart from the fact that it belonged to the late Mr. Donald Graham, or Airthrey Castle.

Stirlingshire, and it was included in a sale in the early part of the present year, the auctioneers being Messrs. J. and R. Edmiston, Glasgow. It is now in private possession in this country.

Until the discovery of this treasure it was thought that the only Renaissance gold cup in the form of a celestial or terresterial globe was that for which the late J. Pierpont Morgan paid a large sum. That cup, which was made in Dresden in the 16th century, 4s now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The description of the Airthrey Castle Cup, which appears in The Connoisseur, is by Mr. Charles R.

Beard, well-known authority on antiquarian subjects, who says that while the Morgan Cup is in the form of a celestial globe, the Airthrey Cup is unique in that the globe is terrestrial, and is divided at the Equator into two halves. The upper hemisphere is sur Infected Bananas Cause Boy's Death Salford. Bananas infected with flexcnus bacillus were blamed for the death in Hope Hospital on June 21 of Ronald Strickland, aged three, Grosvenor street, Broughton. Dr. J.

D. Giles, medical superintendent at Hope Hospital, told the Salford Coroner at the inquest that a case of this kind had rarely been heard of since the war. During the war it was well known, and most of the dysentery cases that came over from France were afflicted with flexenus bacillus. The Coroner (A. Howard Flint) remarked that he understood it was the first time there had ever been such a case in Salford.

The buy's mother purchased the bananas from a street hawker. There were a dozen altogether, but as one of the bunanas was over-ripe it was thrown away. Ronald and his younger brother Thomas, aged two, shared ten of the bananas at teatime, and the remaining one was given to a little girl next door. Subsequently both boys became ill. but the girl suffered no ill-effects.

The boys' uncle had also bought some bananas from the same hawker, and he became ill after eating them, but soon recovered. The boys wero removed to Hope Hospital, where Ronald died. Thomas recovered after treatment. Evidence was given that the bananas came from Las Palmas in the Canary Isles. They were sold "loose" to thq hawker in Smlthficld Market.

Dr. Giles said that everything pointed to the bananas being responsible for the boy's death, It had not been possible to ascertain the source from which the bananas had become infected. The Coroner, returning a vcrdlcl of death by misadventure, said, "The bunanas were prnbobly in fected at some stage of their jour ney by bring handled by a person who was a carrier of this infection." Judge On Legal Rights London. "What I always feci about this world," said Mr. Justice Bennett In the Chancery Division recently, "Is that It would be nulte an Impossible place to live in if people all insisted on their Irani rights.

A sensible man who rnnsulli sensible solicitors drsires tn krrn out of litigation, and the bet word of lawyers is done bv kcrninu thmr cliuuU out of litigation," Civil Servants Play Cricket With Kirkby-in-Ashfield Miners Kirkby-in-Ashfield. "Got him middle stump," cried Mr. Evans, and laughed delightedly. The sun streamed down on him as he lay in the long grass at the edge of the cricket field and he raised one arm, in a characteristic gesture, to wipe his brow, writes a Morning Post correspondent. You saw then that his hands, in common with those of the other sturdy figures stretched out around the boundaries, were seamed and blackened and hardened with years of coal mining.

But Mr. Evans had the day off, and could enjoy himself. They get, on the average, four to five days holiday each week, those 2,000 men who are "employed" at the great colliery whose buildings brood, in all the solemnity of dust and ashes, above Kirkby. And that ia why the India Office, unobtrusively like many other Government Departments in similar towns, has established a Club in Kirkby in which men may play and work. They were playing the India Office cricket team this afternoon, in a match limited to 22 overs a side because the ground was wanted for another match at 3.30, and the home team was not doing too well.

"They've got good bowlers, the India Office," said Mr. Evans, as another wicket fell. "They ought to teach us something," He did not say that this was the first season the Kirkby Social Centre team had played at ali; when the India Office In the spring offered to provide equipment there had been 56 Dathet annlicatlons from would-be cricketers. Kirkby were all out for 81 and the men went out to field, followed by the encoursiini cIbds of their supporters. Another miner turned.