New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
LONDON NOTES.
qk Hardest Worher in England
IN american Pilgrims Progress.

sr.y az Windsor. with seven Thousand invited
ISIS. and to-E,orrow there Will be n ro,,o,
mic a: Virginia Water. with TIE King Of Siam
,-nce and Princess Andrew OF Greece and tho
c.sni Duke and Duchess of Baden among tbosa
= be entertained on the following dav he va
ms 70 Buckingham Palace to receive the par-
can Embassy. To hold the last levee Of the seo-
an and 10 conduct other functions: and thc,,
10 goes 10 Lincoln 10 open the Agricultural
ssou, and returns 10 lay the cornerstone Of ,ha
..u wing Of the British Museum and 10 cIear
- fife arrears Of public business before RI
,aek-erd visit at Nuneham. Every ,y.al, fs
-aUdad with public and social engaga,,,a,,+r
,nfu he is free to so TO Marien&ad. The Cour+
Isrculsr is a record OF all these functions ionr~
rsys and visits; but what a mass of detail is
In out OF IL Every one of these e1eaeeroen+s
& pre-arranged and involves official correspond
snce: and he IS in daily communication VIII,
,he Prime II mister on public affairs and
through the court officials and his secretaries
he is kept in constant touch with everything
mat Is going on in the world The hardest
worker in The kingdom IS his majesty" said
me Of these officials me yesterday with
time Of conviction; and 1t was scarcely neces-
ssrr for him 10 add that no American million
sire with hundreds of business undert a kings and
charities to supervise could DO buster or more
systematic
What increases the burdens Of this business
Of reigning is the Kings own passion for small
details He knows how everything ought to be
erery Official TO strict account: he is consulted
On the most trivial matters; and system or
eanzation and precision mean much 10 him
ss 10 the manager Of the largest and most COM
mex Industrial mercantile business. The
King does not spare himself in his daily ocCupa-
tons. nor does he allow any one in his service
m fall behind or TO become careless in work.
No other monarch. unless il he the German En-
peror is so punctual and orderly in the transac-
lion Of public business as King Edward. He IS
G--f.,r 1,7 ,ca1F F,r-~ alra
every one around him work strenuously. That
Is the testimony of the official whose tribute to
him have already quoted; and il can be con-
frrled by any one having confidential relations
with him al court. What protects him from the
consequences Of overwork is his quickness Of de-
csion When he is consulted, his opinion is
instantly given. and it is not altered subse-
ouently. He never seems to be IN doubt respect
ing any detail, and does not increase his labor
hv habits Of representation and indecison. He
Is q thoroughly businessike ruler who likes de-
tail thinks of everything and has precise knowl'
edge Of whatever comes before him. monarch
with these traits can be the hardest worker in
The kingdom without serious risk OF wearing
himself out under pressure of business.
TheAmerican Pilgrims Progress is illustrated
BIZ a group of ninety watercolor drawings and
engrap wings at the Fine Art Society's rooms. in
Bond street. The artist is Miss Chettle. an
English woman, who has made q sketching tour
in highways and byways where sWarms OF
Yankee tourists seek every summer TOT memo
rials Of their own pioneers and worthless. Many
Of the drawings are TO be used in illustrating
book on the American colonizers and empire !
makers Of the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN |
turies which Mr.. Marcus B. Hush Is writing. !
Il Is an interesting collection. which viii enable
patriotic tourists and sentimental travellers TO
prepare an itinerary for the haunts, homes ana
memorials Of Raleigh, Wolfe. Penn the Pilgrim
Fathers, the Washingtons and Franklins, John
Harvard and EEhu Yale, washington irving |
81 r-r-kyf, rrra- a H.
fed with great events Of American history. The |
sketches have evidently been rapidly made ana |
decorative touches have been added so as 10 |
give picturesque qualities 10 them The Devon |
shire church at East Budleigh. where the youth |
ful Raleigh used 70 dream OF voyages or ad- |
venture and trunphs at court, would be dull |
and sombre in cold-gray realism; and it has |
been Frightened with red roses and {. flock OF |
pigeons. John Bunyans shabby cottage at |
E9stow IS artifcialy triCked out with flowers; |
Old Scrooby OF the Pilgrim Fathers, has been |
Illuminated with the golden sheen OF gorse. and |
grim Wrexllam Church tower, with the tomb OF |
Elihu Yale underneath It. is as lovely as green !
verdure and masses Of white flowers can make |
Il Sometimes the decorative impulse has needed |
70 be restrained, as when barrow Of fruit is |
dragged in front of the Harvard house at
Stafford. the garden behind Bracebridge |
Hail IS overstocked with garish red and purple |
flowers. the road in front Of Washington |
Irvinrs Red Horse Inn is cluttered with sheep |
and saunterers, and a boy in Gainsborough blue |
is clapped bicycle. the drawing. however
is fairly good and the colors are excellent.
The Pilgrim series is the largest group. There |
is the old hall in Gansborough where the
Fathers used to worship: Miles Standish's |
canopied pew In Chorley Church shines in the
glory Of old oak: William Brewsters manor
house ia Scrooby retains a semblance OF old
time dignity; the gnared mulberry tres is the
relic Of John Winthrop's garden at Grotoni time
has not dealt too gently with William Bradford's
cottage at Austerheld the splendid lantern or
81. Botolph's Boston is the same landmark
from which the cxiles turned awST sorrowfulIy |
and which they remembered in the New Worlc;
the cells under the courthouse in the Lincoln
shire town are as gloomy when the Fathers
were imprisoned in them; and Emmanuel Col
lege, Cambridge, where John Harvard and other
Puritans were educated, makes quaint ana
beautiful picture. The Penn series Is also fairly
complete It includes drawings Of what remains
Of William Penns mansion and garden In
Warminghurst, Sussex: the Blue IDOL at
coolam, and the meeting house at Jordan's.
where the Quakers worshipped; Kings Farm
in Choriey Wood. where he married. and
his burial place in Bucks. The artist has gone
Tar aaeld 10 find tho earliest Washington sites
IN Lancashire; but strangely enough she has
neglected Great Brington, where the last Of the
English ancestors Of the first President were
buried The manor house at SulgraVe. the cot |
tage at Little Brington. and Purleigh, in Essex |
Where the Rev. Laurence Washington lost his |
Ewing. she has found. and also Ecton Of the |
franklins, although she has not made the rec
tory, where the philosopher himself stayed for
holiday. as prominent she might have done
There are souvenirs on the walls Of a good
many stored spots which are ordinarily missed
by the most interchangeable tourist tramps. There |
are sketches of the houses in Kent where Cen
eral Wolfe was born and where he lived before |
MS last campaign in Canada; OF tho avenue at
fa.rlawn. where Sir Harry Eane's ghost is re-
puted 70 AXE its rounds by moonlight; Of the |
birth house Of Sir Waiter Raleigh; Of WidforG