Evening star., 1902-08-23

Cottage by Princess Henry of Battenberg
and her family. One or two other resi-
dences upon the estate are also retained for
royal use-that known as Kent H 5use, for
example, VIII, it is unaerstGod. be placed
at the disposal of the Princess Of Wales as
a nursery home, The 6 eater part of the
demesne used for farming is rCrted out.
and it is stated that the farmers will be
confirmed in their leases, the rents being
placed to the credit OF the estate account.
The game coverts will presumably fall
into disuse. but the Kitchen garden, the
floating bath in Osborne bay, the terrace of
flowers and other amenities will be retain
ed fer the benefit of the cGnvaleScent Of
ficers The upkeep, so far as it is not COW
cred by the profits, win be a charge upon
the war office vote and that for the royal
palaces when the regulations for the ad-
mission of the public to the royal apart
mentS have been formulated.
Exodus to the North.
For the past three days the great exodus
TO the north has been going on, and every
sportsman who could hire moor or re-
ccive an invitation TO shoot over one has
fed to Yorkshire or Scotland. The festi-
val of the little brown bird" that hides in
the heather has had more devotees this
year than for the past two-twelfths of Au-
gust, and at the three great railway sta
tions-Kings Cross, st. Pancras and Eus-
toni was informed that trains were run
ming in duplicate and triplicate.
The reason for the exceptionally heavy
nature of the traffic is not far to seek The
most obvious explanation is that great
number of officers who for the past two
Augusts have been on active service in
South Africa are now released from those
duties, and are free to indulge in the pur-
suit of the grouse. Another explanation
is that many officers have come back who
are in a position to hire one of the small
moors in Scotland. and are only too glad TO
ask their friends or Junior officers to share
in the sport. The conditions are therefore
satisfactory for every one but the grouse
themselves.
Automobiles as War Equipment.
The British war office is really moving,
for we are to see automobiles used this
year in the military maneuvers. A motor
that was used in South Africa on active
service was exhibited in London some time
ago. and was of great interest.
Since then the use of automobiles as lug
gage carriers has been the subject of trial
by war office committee. and a short
time ago Mr.. Mark Mayhem. a well-known
English motorist, was authorized by the
secretary of state for war to raise a few
automobile volunteers to take part in the
maneuvers proceeding this week and next
on Salisbury Plain, under the command of
Sir Evelyn Wood. A further and more i'm
portant step is about to be taken, for Mr..
MayheW is to be intruSted by the war Of
flee with the enrolment as a corps of vol
unteers of a number of owners of suitable
cars who are themselves expert drivers, or
can provide servants possessing the neces-
Sary ability.
The members of the corps will be re-
quired, at two months notice, to take part
in maneuvers extending over two or three
weeks in each year, and will hold thsm-
selves bound TO serve, with their cars, in
the event of an invasion. Suitable uniforms
will be devised. The members of the corps
will rank as officers and the mechanics as
n,1tS f14
Der will receive pay al the rate of 80 shil-
lings a day and will be expected to make
provision for his own needs, though the
military authorities will pay for the fuel
for his motor car.
1t is expected that these more extended
trials viii result in the regular use of au-
tomobiles by the army. The war Offices
name for blundering, however. leads q
paper to remark that now motors have
been decided upon it only remains for the
army officials to select the wrong type of
machine
Fine Art Collection.
Although the Earl's Court exhibition has
attracted its usual crowds, there is one
section of the show which has received
less attention than it deserved. This is the
fine art collection. One may easily set
aside its claims to being representative
collection Of contemporary French art but
as an exhibition of works contributed by
NV 1H6 L 1tllCN painters II Is III many ways
the best ever sent to London, for the great
show of French art at the Guildhan two
years ago was entirely composed of loan
pictures. Degas, Manet, Monet, Benjamin
Constant, Fantin Latour, Gerome and De
taille are missing here, and the pictures,
on the whole, may be said to represent the
old salon and its dying influences rather
than the new salon and its promise.
But, on the other hand. Ranaelli, in three
examples, one of which is in his best man
ner; Abel Truchet in many clever works
in oil and pastel, J. j, Wertz, Emil Noirot
and Victor Maree, Gurand de Scevola and
Andre Devambedy and several olner clever
individual painters whose art is seldom
seen in England, are shown here. That
brilliant Partisan, Caro-Delvaile, is rep
resented in three works. which, although
hard and dry in color, are among the most
distinctive pictures in the exhibition. There
are several daring sketches of Spanish
dancers in quarele by Camoreyt, sympa
thetic nocturnes by A. NJ Bouard and in
teligent portraits in the Constant manner
by Ernest Bordes. There is also a collec-
tion of sculpture and engravings of much
merit One might even miss the Great
Wheel and the model morgue in order to
see this show. L. II. MOORE.