New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-11

-,-lv SEEN ana in such close proximity TO
" -rpter pipes and q chimney hue that the
Us was blistered and seriously injured The
suore authorities were guilty Of great careless
=, N exposing one OF the best examples OF
.--,Y,sh Pre- Raphselite art to damage Of this
S.-acter and naturally have sought 10 ex-
-, away their neglect 20 have the picture in
r,-.es bg some competent expert, and to have
= ,,aoed where Il would not be overheated
=. r7vr. has closed the controversy by assert
=, eunphatically that when the picture was
.-.sn &c his studio the paint was found 70 have
led or in parts and that many blisters had
-, raised: and. moreover that he was close,v
s.,unied Cor five weeks in repairing the dam
,rss after the work had been refined The orig
,.sl -pinting has been returned 20 Kebie Col
- where the authorities seem TO be as fgno-
1T respecting the repairs as they were about
,.a damages caused by their own carelessness
81 Hunt not satisfied with the conditions nm
ss- which the picture has been exhibited at OK
card has painted replica Of st. which is now
!, ambition at the Fine Arts Rooms. II looks
,,-syr than the original and is framed most
,-lsticaliy. Mrs. Maurice Hewlett who Is al
-,ost as clever artist In metal and wood as
her husband is with his pen. is the designer and
decorator Of this unique frame.
me abandonment OF the United Services Col
,sps al Westward Ho is 10 be considered a 1T
s-ary event. since It was Mr.. Kipling's nursery
a, sters Without the studies from life there
!, his own boyhood there would have been no
aSslky & Co.." and the environment of Kings
lsv's country on the picturesque North Devon
east must have helped to invigorate the Anglo
indian student and 10 have made an ardent i'm
perslist Of him. Westward Ho has been for a
long period a unique watering place. inhabited
mainly by veterans Of the military and naval
services. and especially by Anglo-Indian civil
,srs and their wives or widows. With con-
genial society. golf links on the hracing coast
and fine school for boys il has been a refuge
far grass or gray widows and retired sea dogs
and Indian veterans half pay. For thirty
wears the sons Of officers OF the army and navy
have been trained there-as many as twelve
hundred in all-and four hundred OF them are
now in service on land and sea. The college
uss well conducted. but was too far from Lon
6on and the Nidlands 20 be financially success
tul even when the doors were opened 10 all
middle class boys. whether their fathers were
or were not connected with the fighting ser
vices The site was inaccessible and was finally
condemned on commercial grounds: ana so the
twelve bleak houses by the shore" have been
closed. and the school is 10 be transferred 20
Harpenden. n Hertfordshire under the protec-
ton and patronage of the Imperial College
Trust. The lookout on the North Devon coast
ought 10 have been an ideal site for a school OF
loyal kuights-at-arns. for IL was named after
book written only two miles away. in Bide-
ford, during the Crimean War. Ito make men
fight" The memories Of the virtuous corsairs
Who went forth during the Elizabethan period
from that bleak seaboard 70 rsvage towns on
TIE Spanish MAN. to create a navy. 10 found
maritime empire and to win the Salanis OF the
Reformation, have sanctifed the little white
town. and within 2 mile OF the college was
Northsm Borough. where Sir Amyas Leigh
swelt and where Salvation Yeo was buried; and
81 Bideford Itself the noble Brotherhood Of the
Rose was founded. With all those historic and
literary associations, there ought to have been
It least one story writer and patriotic singer
among twelve hundred boys in Westward Ho
turing a single generation; and while Mr.. Kip
ing has lacked Kingsley's love for the soil Of
Devon, he has found inspiration in its racy
-irtues and in Western Wind and Open Surge"