Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 5

APRIL 21 1910 EVENING STANDARD AND ST GAZETTE 5 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Special Publishers9 Column burn his eldest brother have also had large concerns with navigation though their ships have been content to go down to the sea rather than up to the heavens Lord Kelburn is a Commander RN and naval affairs represent the keenest interest of Lord Glasgow who himself favv service in the White Sea during the Crimean war nnA his medal and clasp in the Chinese trouble of 18 i Lord title comes appropriately enough from one of the largest shipbuilding centres in the world Mrs Percy Wheeler will give a small dance for her daughter at the Hyde Park Hotel on Wednesday May 4 rt lie following fashionable engagements are announced: KINDLY To-morrow Friday Aoril 22 The House of Cassell will publish ituo Important Books of the first of which The Rev SILVESTER HORNE done place of work that liu lung awitin Puritanism And Art AN ENQUIRY INTO A POPULAR FALLACY Bv JOSEPH CROUCH WITH INTRODUCTION BY KEY SILVESTER HORNE MP Medium 8vo cloth gilt 12s6dnet With Photoeravure Frontispiece and 15 full-pane Piates showing examples of the work of Raphael Albert Durer Rembrandt Hogarth Constable Gainsborough and other Masters It is the hrst real attempt that has been made to justify Puritanism in its attitude towards Art Prosptctut post free on application And the Second by the Author of "Aunt Jane of Kentucky" which is entitled The Land of 7 he Hon Charles Paulet St John youngest son of Lord St John of Hlet-oe and the late Lady St John of Melcli bourne Park and Gillian elder daughter of Mr Aylmer Somerville Penleigh House Westbury Sir Hunt Henry Allen Johnson Walsh Brt 1)1 of Bdlv-kilcavan Queen County and Grace youngest daughter of the Right Hon Henry Bruen DL of Oak Park Carlow aptain Robert Norman Gordon 2nd Battalion Border Regiment and Rheda Kathleen younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh Jefferson of Hundith Hill C'ockei mouth LIBERATOR BOLIVAR Long Ago By ELIZA CALVERT HALL The many enthusiastic admirers of Jane of Kentucfcv win re-: with pleasure this new volume of Aunt Jane's reminiscences ot her Younger former book Land of Long presents a delightful picture ot life in the real charm and spirit of the old-time country folk 1 Of the Spring List of strong Novels published bv the House of Cassell the following are being widely rvad Rider FINE ROMANCE Morning Star ano The Times Tua 1 a heroine ynceivi and drawn In Mr Haggard's famous early style and the story shows hi old mastery over scenes of battle and of Booxm vs A ondrous tale A thrilling story is no unworthy sue-cessor to The Gvardian weird and exciting story iteoau the most fantastic stories in the Nights' Review of Reviews A Girl from the South By CHARLES GARY ICE 4th Impression 6 The Prince ami Princess of Wales and Prince Edward and Prince Albert of Wales witnessed the performance of Jimmy Valentine at the Comedy Theatre last evening Prince Albert arrived at Marlborough House yesterday from the 11 oval Naval College Osborne The Earl of Drogheda is twenty-six to-day The only eon of the ninth Earl lie succeeded in 1008 and about a year ago married Miss Kathleen Pelham Bum His only sister Lady Beatrice Moore was married a few months later to Mr liobin Kerr-Clark Lord Drogheda who holds an appointment in the Foreign Office is a capital bhofc and an excellent horseman A clever amateur actor he took part some years ago in a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Court Theatre when his sister was also one of the company In the name of Moore he holds a viscounty and a barony the latter dates back to 1616 The sixth Earl was created Marquess of Drogheda and Baron Moore of the United Kingdom but these honours expired with the eighth Earl and third Marquess who was succeeded by his cousin the late peer Sir Thomas Moore son of the finst Viscount Moore of Mellifont married in 1621 when she was only twelve yearn old Ludy Sarah Boyle daughter of the great Earl of Cork When sh? was only eight Sir John Blenner-hasset wrote to her father in 1017 Right Honourable I was not long since at my Lady whore she said her lord and herself desired to get a good wife for their eldest son and desired me out of the love I bear unto them that I would think where this their desire might be accomplished I assure you the young gentleman is of as good hope as any 1 know in this kingdom his age is about eighteen year I do assure you that in my poor opinion both for education and otherwise he is the best match of this day in The marriage with the best match in took place but Lady Sarah as left a childless idow at fourteen eighteen months after her marriage The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon who have returned from Egypt will be at Highclere Castle for Whitsuntide Highclere is one of the finest sporting estates in the country The park has a circumference of thirteen miles and the house stands nearly 6 IX) feet above sea-level from the indows views over four counties can be obtained Milford Water the lake in the park has a house on its banks The as it was called formerly was originally built for a temporary residence whilst repairs were being made at the castle it now serves as a luncheon place for shooting-parties Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre who left yesterday for Biarritz were lunching in the Carlton Restaurant with the Marquess of Anglesey and Lord Victor Paget just before leaving London Lady Constance Stewart-Rieharl-son was also there and General Wojack and Baron Gunz-burg At the Carlton the newest is always on view and yesterday there a wonderful dress to he seen there so closely cut about the knees that even walking must have been positively painful Lady small dance will take place at Claridge's Hotel on Wednesday May 2f Lieut -Colonel the Right Hon Sir Fleetw'ood Edwards celebrates his sixty-eighth birthday to-day He entered the Royal Engineers in 1863 retiring after a connection with them of some thirty-two years To Queen Victoria he was Keeper of the Privy Purse Groom-in-Waiting and an Extra Equerry and in 1901 the King appointed him Serjeant-at-Anns in the House of Iords His duties in the latter office which is a survival of the Royal Bodyguard of armed gentlemen include attendance upon the Lord Chancellor the Lord Keeper or the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Previous to his Household offices Sir Fleetwood served as ADC to the Governor of Bermuda and acted in similar capacity to the late Sir Lintorn Simmons Inspector-General of Fortifications whom he accompauied to the Berlin Congress of 1878 Besides being Extra Equerry to the King lie is also a member of Council of the Duchy of Lancaster Lady Cooper has returned to 40 GrOsvenor-square ith her daughter who is coming-out this season On account of Sir Daniel Cooper's death Lady Cooper will not be entertaining this year but a dance will be given at the lhtz Hotel by Mrs Streatfeild Lady married daughter Mrs Bouwens is giving a dance for her daughter at he ltitz on Thursday Juno 9 Sir George Barclay who is leaving Persia for a holiday of some months has had charge of British interests ns Minister at Teheran since 1908 in which year he received the honour of knighthood Entering the Diplomatic Service in 1886 his twenty-fourth year he was appointed two years later thitd Secretary at Washington Since tlion he has served in the Embassies at Rome Madrid Constantinople and Tokio Sir George was the third son of the late Mr Henry Barclay of Monkhams Woodford a Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Essex They belong to tlio Barclays of Hoddesdon who are in turn a branch of the Barclays of Mathers and Erie This latter family traces descent to one Roger Berchelai described in the Domesday Book as holding land at that time in the county of Gloucester which lie obtained from Earl FitzOsborn at the Conquest St Jamoe-Htreet in the eighteenth century was the home of the old coffee-house and the favourite resort of the fashionable world now since the new coffee-house has found a homo there the fashion has revived for is crowded of an evening Also lie has arrived as a caterer ami the many small dinners and dances that are taking place during the next -few weeks mean an immense amount of work for him The Hon Alan Boyle who flew in splendid feather round Brookluuds the other flay is aumpg the latest recruits to the anif of nviitfciN Mr Boyle iViJci youngest on of tho Earl of Glasgow His father and Viscount Kel- The Road Back By SIDNEY WARWICK Author of A House 6 The Mystery of Barry Ingram By annie swan 6 CASSELL CO LD LONDON EC Simon Bolivar: By Loraine Petrc Lane 12s 6d net Given anything like a itolerable Homer Simon Bolivar might have made an excellent Ulysses He was indeed a many-counselled much -contriving much-enduring man who wrought deeds well worth the singing could the fitting hard be found Almost from one end to 'another of the vast South American continent he fought and conquered he crossed the Andes more than once with his wild half-naked soldiery he battled among the of the lowlands and in the eternal frosts of the mountains he framed constitutions emitted edicts and laws and in short did more than any man to turn Latin America from a parcel of ill-governed colonies into a parcel of equally ill-governed and lawless republics Bolivar was a great man the greatest Spanish America has produced But lie wants a Spanish-speaking Homer to tell his Btory not a critical Saxon like Mr Petre who has a quick eye for the weak points of his Ulysses and is by no means blinded by the glory of the victories of Carababo and Avacucho Bolivar Mr Petre thinks and no doubt rightly was no Napoleon or Washington He had neither the military and administrative genius of the Corsican nor the moral elevation of the Virginian His tactics were not those of a great master of strategy though his constancy in defeat and his enormous energy in prosecuting a campaign marked him as a leader of men So too did his singular of command and the influence he exercised on all who came near him His manners were not pleasing and his temper was harsh but lie was almost the equal of Garibaldi in his ability to inspire enthusiasm and overcome opposition Mr Petre accuses him of barbarity on at least two notable occasions the massacres of La Guiara and Caracas But it would perhaps be unfair to lay too much stress on the charge Real revolutions are no rosewater business and the Royalists were at least as ruthless as the rebels Generally speaking Bolivar was not prone to inhumanity and his character is as fair as that of any public man of his times In one respect he stands far higher than any of his contemporaries in Latin America He was quite incorruptible in money matters He began life as a rich man he died comparative poverty and he consistently refused all the boundless opportunities he enjoyed of enriching himself at the expense of the State His Republicanism which was learned tn revolutionary Paris was perfectly sincere The Liberator may have coveted the practical dictatorship of the South American Continent btifc he certainly did not wish to become a titular King or Emperor Much as he admired Napoleon he CQased to worship him after the coronation That an outside observer should become deliberately convinced that the First French Repubhc was the highest type of polity is no great tribute to his powers of judgment but Bolivar it must be remembered was young and impressionable at the time he frequented the salons of the Directoire and wiser men than he were fascinated by the fashionable theories of liberty fraternity and the perfectibility of the species Later in life when he found from bitter practical experience that it was easier to break up a rotten and superannuated social system than to found a new one lie was forced to admit that for the ill-educated backward and heterogeneous populations of South America the purer forms of Republicanism wore scarcely possible He had perpetually to recast his constitutions and systems of administration he could find no reliable tools with which to work and he was continually hampered bv the disloyalty of other leaders It is no discredit to Bolivar that he could not achieve the impossible Napoleon himself could scarcely have of Spanish America a stable and powerful State and even tho lapso of a century has not found the Augean stable of South American polities clean and garnished achievements imperfect as they necessarily were at least mark him ns the greatest of tho Creoles Mr narrative gives an interesting account of the various battles and sieges of Bolivar's campaigns including what was perhaps his greatest military achievement the famous inarch to Bogota in 1819 which resulted in the liberation of New Grenada Tho feat has been often compared to the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal and Napoleon an I the actual physical difficulties were probably greater than either of those leaden encountered PUBLISHED TRUXTON KING By McCUTCHEON Author of and BREWSTER'S MILLIONS of the few romances of the Zenda kind that one Can read with growing excitement As a rule the tiling is b-tte known than the -vartu Bond Street In -Truxton King' there are some of the well-known tliev do nut pall They are alive and quite convincing and th ingenuity lightning sliced ot their actions taks the reader's tr-atli awiv For hour or two of sheer suspense and Interest tv esn recommend the tale to the most blase AVou'ny Standard King in search of romance has his fl'l of in the whirl of intrigue round tho throne ol GraustavW The story goes null a sw irar tut I a right royal and most delightful little chapt the young ruler Robin 7V Tins -A stirring story vividly London EVERETT CO 42 Essex Street WC- The Great Prize Novel Four large Impressions exhausted before publication Fifth Impression at press A MARRIAGE UNDER THE TERROR By PATRICIA WENTWORTH 6 21262 IOs Od MRS FLORA ANNIE STEEL MISS MARY CHOIMOX-DELEY and MRS HENRY 1)E LA PASTl RE the lending women Novelists of our l)sy havo awarded the prise of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY GUINEAS to this Novel as tho best in 130 MSS submitted for Mr Andrew Melrose's Best Novel Competition ANDREW MELROSE York Street Covent Garden WC GREAT Daily Mail NEW FICTION Speclal Publishers9 Column THE DOP DOCTOR By RICHARD DEHAN I vol 6 tlio parallel to Mr Delian in scope and standpoint in lavishness and ruthlessncst That is why criticism can best summarise DOP DOCTOR as a hip rugged slice of lifo placed boldly and unremittingly before ns by a niati powerfully competent to the Mail A Husband by By Jack 8uvv Ward I ock (b A Wild Intrigue By Heir Scott 8 Paul Oj i Glory and The By Vincent Brown Chapman and Hall Os Professional By George Weniyss Constable Mystery of Burry Ingram By Annie 8 Swan tusM'll Duplicate By A Fox-Davie Rhode is Pbilosdiy rr the Djm I ttu By Gertrude Rinat and Blackett 2a 6i net "PEOPLE WITH FACES LIKE BENEDICTIONS ARE USUALLY SO BADLY ACCORDING TO MARIA By MRS JOHN LANE gublMhKUt THE BQpLEV HEAD St Trio Sl SiIUHNCS- London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN.