Arizona republican., 1902-01-05

| champion founder of free libraries, he | has done more to promote the perusal of fiction than AIessrs. Mudie. To | counteract this taste. however. he has devoted two millions to the endow- ment of higher education in Scotland. Ithe result of which is expected to be an indefinite multiplica tion of kailyard ''idylls. Mir. Carnegie, having sold ! Pittsburs to MT. Pierpont Morgan. no longer takes delight. he has said in anything but Shakespeare. Passniore | Edwards and Wagner.
 LORD CURZON.
 Curzon of Kedleston. Prince, viceroy of India. was born in the purple in 1859. At Eton he gained the prize for his tory. languages. good conduct, and omniscience. and was recommended for | the mastership of Balliol to which he was elected in 1880. succeeding Lord ! Salisbury as minister for foreign af- fairs in 1895. After exploring BaIu- chistan. the Great Sahara. and the north pole, and writing a series of | folios on each. he was. at the advanced | age of 29. having exhausted all other experiences, reduced to accepting. the viceroyalty Of India. It has been said that if Buddha is the light of Asia. Lady .Curzon is it's Letter.
 h h. AN HUN ! lioE L.
 Hope. Anthony. Senior Partner in | Hope Brothers. Hosiers to the court of Hentzau. who derives his descent from | a noble family in Ruritania Cheacs his pseudony1 the Chevalier Hawkins''J was born at Dollis Hill in 1865. After a distinguished career at oxford he | threw himself with great energy into politics. and wrote the Dolly Dialogues ! for Mr. LaboUchere's Toy Show at the i Albert Hali. He subsequently invented and patented the Zcnda Nesta or Run away Match which. dramatized by I Bryant and Edna May. has brought him in large fortune. portion of which ie has invested in the purchase of the famous Hope diamond Mir i wkins. who bears al striking resemb- ' lance to Dante. and weighs 1jG pounds has lectIred in America under the aegis of Major Pond. His motto is: "Beautiful Anthony Hope is read i tBrowning).
 ! SIR HENRY IRVING. i Irving. Sir Henry Washing ton. American actor. was born at Boston. in 1898 Sir Henry. who is known in his own country as Colonel Irving. has oc- CasiCnally visited England. but has so great an objection to performing out of America that only mere glinpses of him have been obtained here. On one | of his brief trips to London however the opportunity was found to make him a knight, and the few performances in which he was then seen filled all Eng fish playgoers with the desire to know more Of his superlative gifts. Sir Henry ] Irving is perhaps better known by his books, especially "Bracebridge Hail. ." and Rip Van Winkle." His son Mir | sg,,,- ,sa..,.- nologist and LOmbroso of the foot ! lights, is now playing the principal part at the St. James's in his brothers ! play. The Likeness to the Knight" Sir Henry's motto is. Hail Columbian
 MR. HENRY JAMES.
 James. Henry. Six-Shilling Sensa- tiCnalist, was born at Hangman's Gulch, Ariz., in 1S43. This favorite au- thor. whose works are famous for their blunt, almost brutal direCtness Of style, and naked realism, passed his early years before the mast, and is believed at one period of his career to have sailed under the skull and crossbones. MT Henry James. on settling on shore turned to the pen for a livelihood. and under q variety of pseudonyms pro- duced in rapid succession d large num- Der of exciting stories, the most pop
 
 ter Christian" The Red Rats Daugh- ter, The Mystery of a Hanson Cab" The Eternal City" and The Visits Of Eliza beth
 MR. RUDYARD EIPLING.
 Kiplins, Rudyard, Poet Laureate and Recruiting Sergeant, was born all over the world. some eighteen years ago. After lUrid infancy at Westv ard IIo, in the company of St2lily & Co. he ern- igrated 60 India at the age of 6. mad swallowed it whole. In the following year the British empire vas placed in his charge, and it is still there. A mis- giving that England may have gone too far in the matter of self esteem having struck him in 1S91, he wrote The Re cessional." but there are signs that he has since forgotten it. His stories have great popularity and his poems are in the repetory of every volunteer but it is by his masterly lyric, Pay. Pay. Pay" that he holds his place in the great heart of the people. who are stli paying and seem likely to continue to do SO (see Hicks Beach).
 SIR THOMAS LIPTON.
 Linton. Sir Thomas Johnstone. the Kings Cupbearcr. was born at Sand ringhanl. which he chose for that honor partly on account of it's last syl- la5le. After serving for some years as an admiral of the Ceylon navy he re- turned to this country a master of teamanship. In spite of course of SandowS' exercises. he cannot yet lift the Americas cup9 but he has recorded the opiTion that finer set of gentle