Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

will gradually be impelled to give us the
service SO often promised, but not yet APP
parently to be realized
The king has been visiting Stowe House,
owned by Baroness Kinloss. The place has
an interesting history. 1t is an Italian
palace of white stone, with an enormous
and monotonous facade, closely resembling
those of Wentworth woodhouse and Bur-
ley-on-the-HiH. 1t was built in the days
when the Grenvilles were the dominating
family of Buckinghamshire and were work
ing for the dukedom which they eventually
obtained from George ".
The estate never was commensurate with
the house or with the style of living prac-
ticed there, and visit paid by Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert in 1915 brought
the finances of Stowe to a crisis. 1t was
then that the Duke of Buckingham 0he
Lord Chandos of the 'Chandos Clause in
the reform act of 1892 said, in amazed in
dignation, to friend who suggested that
1t was not necessary to keep an Italian
confectioner as well French chef and
an English roasting cook. Good Cad!
Mustn't man have biscuit with his glass
of Sherry?"
The visit of Queen Victoria to Stowe in
lS4o was followed by that of the bailiffs
in 1S4I. Then came the crash. Part of the
estate was sold for 1858 600, and the great
Stowe sale of pictures furniture and
hric-a-brac lasted forty days and pro-
duced more than $4,000. The famous
"Chandos" portrait of Shakespeare brought
only 800 guineas. The third and last duke
played very fine part in paying off the
remains of his fathers debts, and, dying
without son in 1889, was succeeded in
the ownership of Stowe and in his Scotch
barony of kinloss by his eldest daughter,
Lady Mary Morgan.
The Rev. w. Carlisle, the head of the
church army, who has been received both
by King Edward and Queen Alexandra, IS
the General Booth of the Church of Eng
land, and rara avis among the city
clergy-a Woodworking member of the min
istry. Mr. Carlisle's methods are as heter-
odox as those of the general. At his church
at st. Mary-at-Hill, Monument, he has
womens surpliced choir. he shouts through
the megaphone, gets laymen-such as Mr.
Ian Malcolm, M. P.-to preach sermons
breaches himself on topical secular sub
1ectS, and is a man altogether of eXcep-
uonal powers and energy. Military in APP
pearance, he is the of city merchant
and never learned divinity at university.
There is much of the Spurgeonic wit about
his pulpit oratory. No one has a better
store of Jail birds "reminiscences, and with
his prison tales he makes fashionable west
end congregations alternately weep and
laugh outright.
which has now been completed, is an inter
estlng example of a tendency in style
around which the Edwardian name is
gradually crystalliZing. Until a quarter of
staircase and vest'bules was frankly early
Victorian, and was sSociated with the
marbled designs of the halls of older
generation. The Office of works then took
the matter in hand and 'MorriSed' the
walls the result being necessarily more
pleasing, although it lacked the congruity
demanded by the Tudor elements in the
window arches. Toward the end of the
nil eteenth century some of the silk dam
ask hangings were redipped chiefly those
in the chamber used by the ambassadors
as an assembly room on the occasion of a
levee.