Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19

now mobiles mansion has been given to
cracking about his ears. Surely never had
swamp SO magnificent an iridescence upon
II! The clubs have made more invasions
stree Disraeli wrote, but 1t Is still a noble
square and IN the strange little lanes that
lead from 1t you may find the little secret
pubic houses where footman's swarries
might still be beheld, where chairnen once
drank with link-boys. or the queer non
descrlpt shors where you can see that the
SON of the house who comes up to start life
In London sells the awkward things that
his parents insist on giving him for his
chambers. Mr. "Bron" Herbert's new
house has one singular advantage. The din
ing room is on the first floor, that guests
are saved climbing downstairs to dinner
and upstairs again afterward
Original Dickens Drawings.
The Dickens Fellowship (of which Mr.
Henry Fielding Dickens, X. c., is presidenD
is interesting itself in an endeavor to secure
as a National Dickens Library the col
lection of Dickensiana formed by the late
Mr. F. G. kitton, a vice president OF the
Fellowship, and well-known student of
and writer upon the life and works of THE
Master. The opportunity is regarded as
unique, seeing that the collection comprises
some three hundred books on Dickens and
his works, the majority Of these being
autograph copies; over two hundred diff
ferent portraits of the novelist, numerous
volumes of magazine and newspaper ar
ticles relating to Dickens; pictures, pro-
grams and playbills; autograph letters from
famous admirers of the novelist; several
plays based upon the novels, with original
reports of speeches by Dickens, and many
pamphlets.
There is also splendid collection of orig
inal Dickens drawings by such well-known
artists as Brock, Leslie Ward, Rainey and
others, as we'll as many drawings by the
late Mr.. Kitton himself dncluding most of
the originals of his illustrations to "A
Weeks Tramp in Dickens Land. The
Dickens Fellowship has appointed COM
mittee which has been in negotiation with
the library committee of the corpora ton OF
London for the acceptance of the collection,
with the object of 1t forming the nucleus
of Il national Dickens library; and that
committee has expressed it's readiness to
accept the collection, to house 1t, and to
make it accessible to the public; and the
council of the Fellowship. having carefully
considered the matter. is now appealing
for the funds necessary for the purchase.
Notes.
The British Museum building at Hendon,
on the northern outskirts of London. which
is to serve as a repository for the storage
of newspapers and other printed matter, is
now completed and ready to receive the
volumes. The book presses and other fit
tings are practically all IN place, so that
within the next month or two a commence
ment 1 am told, will be made with the
work of removing the bound volumes of
newspapers from their present abode In
Bloomsbury to Hendon.
No one who found his way to the Whis-
tier memorial exhibition in Paris this sum-
mer will be at all surprised at the news
that it has been financial failure. l say
found his way with intent. The chief
end of my visit to Paris was to see this ex-
hibition. Yet 1t took two days search be-
fore 1 could discover it's whereabouts. There
was not bill to be seen on the boards nor
an advertisement in the newspapers nor
did the people in the print shops seem to
know anything Of 1t.
The great sale season. mean the vertu
sales, not those of Oxford street and Re-
gent streets practically over, and the
commissions earned would make the for
tune of more than one modest man. The
season withal has not been one Astounding
in sensation. The great event has been the
disposal of the Louis Huth collection, and
the one in which the public was most in
terested was that of the sale of the Tweed
mouth pictures
Some of the relics Of Christs Hospital
were knocked down yesterday for an old
song. Two iron-bound oak chests realized
only shillings, and shillings bought
three wood bowls, three wood platters and
three wood pals, with a tripod and table
thrown in. A quaint chimneypiece dated
17O8 was knocked down for G2. and even
the historic staircase in the counting house
fetched no more than 9S.