Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-12
setting which make 1t the admiration of
every visitor to this famous Sussex home

setting which make 1t the admiration Of
every visitor to this famous Sussex home
of the Gordon-L ennoxes The royal apart
ments at Goodwood are used only by
royal guests Perfectly appointed and
richly decorated. they lead off the long
hall-a very imposing atrium with Ionic
columns and COZ nice, containing a fine
collection of antlers and paintings of IA
nous equine heroes of the turf. The state
drawing room contains some very beau
tiful Gobelin tapestries and some mag
niflcent SevreS presented to the third
Duke of Richmond by Louis XIV.
Charles, the third duke, was the builder
of Goodwood, but died before Its compile
ton. This duke was a field marshal and
famous in his day art patron He
used to throw open his house in White
hall to any art student interested in stat
uary, and 1T Is to his artistic knowledge
that Goodwood owes much Of its abound
Ing treasures.
Among the pictures here are Titian's
Sleeping Venus" while In the ball room
is Vandyck's Charles 1 With His Queen
and Children" The king possesses re-
plica of this famous Vandyck, as does
also the Duke of Devonshire The state
bed room also contains many works of
art and some fine specimens Of needle
work. including a beautiful bedspread
worked for George III by Lady Caroline
Gordon-LennoX. Added interest is given
to the royal visit to Goodwood next week
by the rumOr that his majesty intends to
confer the late Earl COwperS garter on
his ducal host.
All the six preceding Dukes of Rich
mond have been members of the premier
Order of Chivalry. though when recent
vacancies have occurred the Duke of Fife
and the Duke of Argyll have been men,
toned the recipients of the knight
hood Both the kings son-in-law and the
kings brother-fn-law are Knights Of the
Thistle, and though there is no rule that
the two orders shall not be conferred on
the same non-royal personage-the Earl
of Rosebery and the Duke of Buccleuch
are knights of the Garter as well as
Knights of the Thiste-yet Is IS very sell
dom that the two orders are held by one
peer.
Notes.
Mr.. Whtelaw Reid has been seized In this
week-end's vortex of school speech days.
and yesterday made his first public appear
ance in London at "break-up"-that of
St. Olave's and ST. Saviour's Grammer
School, Bermondsey. Speech day Is never
Il prosaic affair to those interested. and
less SO In this case, for the PROCEEDINGS In
cluded quaint little ceremony which must
have appealed to Mr.. Reid.
very important autograph sale was held
at Sotheby's on Thursday. when a letter
from George Washington to the Rev. Mr.
Boucher. in Annapolis. was eagerly COM
peted for and finally knocked down to Mr.
Sabin for G7O
The letter is dated Mount Vernon, July 80.
1at0- After hoping Mr.. Boucher had re-
ceived some books he had sent to him and
stating that no thread had arrived, Wash
ington writes:
THAT there should be dissatisfaction
and murmuring at the Virginia Association
(by those who are more strictly bound)
do not much wonder at, but 1t was the best
that the friends to the cause could (sic)
obtain here. and, tho too much relaxed
from the spirit with which a measure of
this sort ought to be conducted, yet 1t will
be attended with better effects Il expect)
than the last; inasmuch as 1t will become
general and adopted by the trade.
Upon the whole. l think the people Of
Virginia have too large latitude, and wish
that the Inhabitants OF the north may not
have too little. What I would be under
stood to mean by 1t is that their publick
virtue may not be put to too severe a tryai
to stand the test much longer II their I'm
portations are not equal to the real necessi-
ties of the people. Whether 1t Is or Is not
cannot undertake to Judge, but suppose
that they are not by the detection Of New