Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

pared to resist 1t to the death. It was in
thls house that Sir Walter Scott and
byron ana Southey and Crabbe first shook
aahds' and it was in the drawing room
fireplace that Byrons memoirs were con-
signed to the flames. Here also II was
ashlngton Irving proudly Informed his
dtien as L frequently meet such personages
as GiHord, Campbell, Fusell Southey
Scott, Belyoni." The walls of the house are
hung with portraits Of its ilustrious Wis
itors, and they number almost all the we'll
s smown men or letters since the Murrays
Irst TOOK up their abode there. In response
TO Mr.. Murray's urgent representations Mr.
Yerkes has spared 1t. and has selected
nelghboring house in Dover street instead.
st. Andrews Youthful Lord Rector.
Boys will be boys. and the report of the
election of the lord rector of st. Andrews
University at Glasgow point to a distinct
superiority of the Scotch student over the
American. Our universities at home see
queer doings at times. The gorgeous ire
sponsibiiity of youth oftentlmes turns
stately, sentimental ceremonies into howl
Ing farces, and the gowns become the sign
OF merry craftsmanship whenever sides are to
be taken and principles espoused. But
happily or unhappily, American universe
ties have not been endowed with the priyi-
lege or burden of electing their own figure
heads by popular not to say juvenile
methods. So we are denied in the United
States the fierce hilarity which last Satur-
day made Glasgow one of the most excited
places earth.
We miss the dead cats that flew from
joyous hands to learned heads the -four
and pease meal that fell like snow over lib
eral and conservative alike, the crowning
master stroke by which the conservatives
captured two polling booths and prevented
the entrance of liberals. Poor Mr. John
Morley, whose fate is so often to be left
out in the cold was defeated by twenty
nine votes, and Mr.. George Wyndham gained
Nubi oh hnd
very literally fought for by his ardent sup
porters.
While viewing this conservative triumph
with every satisfaction. and hoping to see it
repeated in other spheres. Mr. Wyndham
does not advocate universal adoption of the
Glasgow methods. Tactics. such as cap
turing polling booths by main force, are
not to be commended, for example to those
youth is not all powerful and where the
police cherish no sympathy with ebullient
spirits. During the Glasgow entertainment
a fight ragged fiercely throughout the city
And yet they say that Scotland has fallen
from its ancient romantic glory and given
itself over to plain prose with q rubrfc of
milionaireSi
Gordon Craig's Drawings.
Now and then there Is a small exhibition
Of pictures in London of far wider interest
than one would imagine. A show of Mr..
Gordon Craigs drawings and woodcuts
opened yesterday in Bayswater. The only
son of Miss Ellen Terry, Mr.. Craig chal-
lenges public approval at intervaIs-at one
time with peculiar stage production, such
as THE Masque of Love- and "Acis and
Galatea," at others with the illustrations
of a book or a weird design for a new
magazine. His present show is both
characteristic and curious.
In a delicate little drawing, mounted and
framed In dead black. of figure of a lady
with gabled house behind her. Mr. Craig
exhibits design for a stage scene, which
is evidently St PauTs Cathedral in dense
fog. In picture called The Dance" the
head and shoulders of dancer are drawn
and at the foot of the paper the curving
line of one side of her skirt; and a most
careful line drawing Is that Of Henry
VIII 1.-The Jugglers Daughter vaguely
shows a girl balancing a golden ball on
her shoulder.
Mr.. Gordon Craig's hundred drawings and
wood cuts include eleven portraits of Sir
Henry Irving They are his best work, for
he shows much In a few skillful lines of