Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-19

| generation do not know what the noliti
clans mean by the little loaf" They have
plenty of bread, all made from foreign
| wheat, which ought to give additional pleas
| ure to free traders.
Excessive Heat in the METROPOLIS.
| The listless, heat-shrunken people in the
Strand today had quite a shock, with the
| sun sending the mercury racing toward the
| nineties. A West African, muffled I'D in
| a heavy overcoat, stalked through the
| sweating crowd, walking icicle in cool
| ness if not in color, and vague idea float
! ed through the minds of eye-witnesses that
there might be hotter place than the
| Strand-on this earth-where the negro
| found an overcoat unnecessary The
| thought gave some comfort to the mind.
| though no GOODNESS to the body The door
| ways of some OF the American iced drinks
! establishments with their long lines of peo-
| pie, reminded one of the pit door of a west
| end theater on a first night. St Paurs in
| these broiling days is an arctic paradise
| but it is astonishing how few L,onaonars
| recognize this Today, while people Gins
| tered around the large fountain in ST
| Pauls churchyard, dipping their hands in
| the water and exposing their heads and
| backs to the full glare of the sun-a handy
| recipe for getting sunstroke-there were
| few within the huge cathedral itself MANY
of the heat stricken also take refuge in
| the TUBE railways put these are not whit
| cooler than ST. Pauls and summer and
| winter are permeated with a peculiar odor
| that offands delicate nostris and chests :
England Losing Literary Treasures.
! For some years the American millionaire
! has been denuding this country of it's rich
| est literary treasures. The process of de-
| mutation mas been going on steadily but
| all previous transactions of the kind griev-
| Gus as they are to English pride have been
dwarfed into insignifcance bv the an
| houncement today that one of the most ia
| nous libraries still remaining in the hands
OF private collectors in this country has
| been bought en- bloc by the omniyerOus mil
| llonalre from across the water A good
| zeal OF mystery enshrouded the transac-
| tlon' ana those most intimately acquainted
| with the details are for the presen+ at
| least, pledged to absolute secrecy II is
| therefore impossible to state even the broad
| outlines of the coup with ANYTHING like
uellnllehess' but II me gossip of the auction
| room Is to be relied upon the transfer has
| taken place at a sum variously estimated
| al from f250,090 to 100000
| rms is somewhere about the sum that
| Mrs Rylands of Manchester paid for Earl
| Spencers library at Authorize but the diff
| terence in the character of the collection
| from the bibliophles point of view may he
! measured by the fact that while ,le Al
| thorpe library numbered several thousands
| OF volumes there are in the latest American
| aCqulSltlon less than one thousand volumes
| Inc EnSllsh owner who has just parted
| with his treasures is described as "a we'll
| known collector The parties to the trans
| action decline to divulge his identity, but in
| some quarters the "weil-known collector
Is a i,; with Nj ates-Thomson of
| Liverpool who is well known to the liter
| airy and artistic world. The purchaser is
| said to be either Mr.. Morgan or Mr. Car
| negie.
Kings Interest in Coronation.
throughout his grave illness, except. Of
| course when he was at his very worst
| hlng EDWARD has never lost his interest in
| any of the schemes associated with his cor
| onation. One of these concerned the ma rdon
Of a certain section of military offenders
| whose sentences had nearly expired whom
1re postponement OF the great ceremonial
| was announced. The war office officials
seemed to have been assailed by doubt and
suggested to the kings advisors the desira-
! pilty OF taking no action until the issue of
| ms maJestys illness was known At the
| very nrSt opportunity this was made known
| TO the king, but his majesty Immediately
| commanded as he did in the case of the
| dinners, that there should be no DELAY and
| no postponement. The kings clemencv will
therefore be at once given effect to and
| the releases will take place as soon as the
| ohclal machinery can be set in motion. 1t
! Is impossible to learn at present whether
thiS pardon Will include deserters of long
| standing.
An appeal, learn, is to be issued by the
war once to the large employers of labor
on behalf Of the men who are returning
ID.
| inspired by the board of trade, which is
! seriously concerned regarding the effect
upon the labor market of the arrival in
TINS country of $4,000 men from the front
mat IN round figures is the number of re-
sefVlsts militia, yeomanry and volunteers
VINO We're on active service when peace
| was declared They are not all returning
at the same time, of course, and many of
them indeed elect to take their chances in
Africa, while small proportion may have
| their civil positions in this country kept
| open for them. Making all allowances how
ever, there will still be a very large number
| OF men thrown upon the labor market pos
| sibly with disastrous results. The great
| majority of these men must certainly join
| the ranks of the unemployed, and the mill
| tary authorities scarcely hope to be able
| 10 secure situations for them all. 1t is
| hoped, however, that the appeal to en-
| ployers may have some effect in prevent
| ing a serious displacement in the labor
market.
A. ]. c. Hare's Water Colors.
Practically every traveller has accom-
panied Mr. Augustus j. C. Hare or more
| correctly, has had him as companion,
| through the wonderland of Italy. Mr.. Hare
| is widely known as the author of the
| walks a brilliant conversationalist,
who adds to the gayety of any gathering.
| he now, however, appears before the public
| in new roll--that of a water coloriSt At
| the Leicester Gallery, Leicester Square,
| there have been put on view series Of 1873
| water colors, the originals 1t appears,
| whence wood blocks were made to Illus
| trate one or other of the Hare guide books.
Italy is the theme Of each. Now we are
| within the Bargello at Florence, now at
| the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the Pal
ace of Vespasian, Rome. or without the
| walls where the Appian Way is thanked
by ancient tombs. Again, 1t is hill-set
Assist, the Bay Of Naples sweeping round
| toward Vesuvius, the deep blue sea off the
Sicilian coast. a picturesque street in old
| world Verona or some Venetian palace that
| ne depicts. AS the work of a versatile and
talented man their exhibition is justified,
| as art they are Of relatively little account.
Several other exhibitions open this week.
! True to its name, the Gutekunst Gallery
| never arranged a. show, whether 1t be Of
etchings by Meryon, Whistler, D. Y. Cam
] eron, strang or Rembrandt. unless 1t be
worthy the attention Of connosseurs. That
| OF thirtyfve plates by A. Van Ostade in
| Guiding first finished state Of that mas
terpiece in little, 'sThe Peasant Paying His
Score" and thirteen by Claude is no ex-
cept1on to the rule Each impression has