Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-25
England were brought into the family.

England were brought into the family.
There is not one drop OF Irish blood IN
Lord Londonderry.
The Duke of Abercorn boasts Of eleven
titles not one of which is Irish His an
cestor was a Scottish "undertaker.' who
obtained some of the confiscated estates or
the O'Neills. The Abercorn Hamiltons nave
been careful not to intermarry with any
Irish family The name of their residence
in Ireland, fine, resounding Gaelic one,
has been altered to "Baronscourt, ana the
twenty thousand acres which the duke
owns are tenanted chiefly by descendants or
Scottish followers of King William. Lord
Barrymore, vice president of the Irish
Unionist Alliance, is an offshoot OF the ex-
tinct Earls Of Barrymore family which, by
alliances and long residences, had become
purely English
:. OF the landlords who support the move
ment toward a settlement, Mr.. Walter NC
Murrough Kavanagh, although only com
moner, is Of the very best blood in Ireland
His father twice refused peerage because
he felt that his rank Al chief of one OF the
-four kingly families'-the McMurroughs Of
Leinster-would be degraded thereby. 1t is
the fashion to sneer at Irish kings" and
their representatives, but the regal dignity
Of Mr.. Kavanagh's forbears was main
tanned down to Elizabeth.
Lord Castletown is chief Of the great
Irish clan of McGillpatrick. or Fitzpatrick.
A great landlord and steadfast conserva-
tive. he has always been friendly to the
aspirations Of the Irish. and he supports
he has done the movement in favor OF re-
viving arts and industries in Ireland.
The Earl of Dunraven Is paternally Quin,
and chief of the ancient Gaelic family OF
that name in the counties Of Clare and Linz
erick. 1t is well to keep these class dis
tinctions in mind when treating Of the
eternal Irish land question"
Dividends on Rhodesian Shares.
do not know whether there is going to
be Christmas boom in the Rhodesia
shares, or whether there is going to be a
boom at all, but the transactions In Rho
desians have for some time past been on
an enormous scale. One company has re-
Gently paid a dividend of 80 per cent. an
other 95 per cent and several others diyt-
dends ranging from to . per cent. Doubt
less this week other dividends will be an
nounced. 1t is one of the peculiarities Of
the British public that 1t will never buy
even good shares when the price Is low but
only when the price is very high. The pro-
fessionals are buying shares for SO many
shillings which they will be ready to sell
to the British public next year for so many
pounds; and the British public Will buy
them
Miss Elizabeth Banks book, 1.-THE Auto
biography Of Newspaper Girl has sold
SO well that second edition Is now In
press which will be larger than the first, as
numbers Of copies are on order for the
colonies. She has been very. successful
with the English edition, and now a Ger
man puDl1Sner Is treating LOT the German
rights for translation. The American news
paper girl and her methods are novelties
both here and in Germany, and there is no
doubt why the book takes so well, though
to my mind the pathos and humor and
feminine gift of writing shown by the
book are its best recommendations.
Important Sale of Books.
An important sale Of books from the
library Of the late Earl Of Oxford, from that
of former Earl of Clifford. and other col
lections. which commenced at Sotheby' 8
last week, was continued today. A COM
plete set of the first editions OF Thomas
Hardy's novels. in all thirty-n.ne volumes,
uniformly bound in half-crimson morocco,
made f27. A Hora OF the fifteenth century,
with sixty-seven small miniatures Of saints,
bishops. etc, valuable on account of the
light it throws on the costumes Of the
founders Of religious orders and others,
realized ECO. Another Hora. a manuscript
on thin vellum. richly illuminated. sold for
ESQ. The decretals of Pope Boniface v, in
manuscript, Gothic characters Of the If
teenth century, also made ESQ. A copy of
the original edition Of Thoresby's Leeds -
one map missing, dated 1715, sold for the
low price Of twenty-three shillings The
rare copy Of Homer. printed at Florence in
14Ss. made f1S7. L. H. MOORE.