Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-23

climax at sale at Sotheby's auction room, when record prices for Shakes pearians were reached An almost unique quarto of the First Part of Henry VI. printed in 1894, was bought for an American collector by Mir. Al bert Jackson for $9,550.
 This American collector is credited with determination to form a H. braTy uniting replicas Of the gems of the British Museum and the Bod lesin Library, Oxford Some years ago he secured the best of group of quartos found at Great Missenden in 1905, including the quarto Richard IT. which belonged to Admiral Sir William Penn, father of the founder of Pennsyiyania, for which he paid sS.T50.
 The agent of this wealthy biblio- phile also secured for S6,050 a copy of the rare play Arden of Faver- sham" attributed to Shakespeare, and published in i592. It is merely a black-ietter pamphlet of q leaves. but it was sold at the rate of S163-50 leaf Twelve thousand dollars was paid for a Shakespeare first folio al this record sale in which the total of prces was nearly $70,o00. King Edward and Queen Alexandra are deeply anxious about the health of their daughter. Princess Victoria, which is going from bad to worse. Although she has oply just returned from a prolonged tour abroad. she has not received much benefit. and she is not to remain in England for any long period.
 Princess Victoria will soon start for another yachting cruise. joining her sister the Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, who herself has recently recoy- cred from a severe illness. The Duke of Fife has chartered the Duke of Sutherland's steam yacht, and the royal party will make a prolonged cruise around the picturesque coast of Northern Scotland during the sum nsg.
 The further trip for Princess Vic tora was ordered after she had been examined by two specialists on her return from her Continental tour with the Queen, but extreme precautions have been taken to prevent the true seriousness of her state of health be- coming generally known. An alarm ing fact about her health is that she has lately developed epileptic symp-
 toms
 Broken Idols" has become the war cry of the reyolted Hindus. just as the story of cartridges greased with | bullock fat-another desecration of
 their religion-stirred up the Sepoys
 to mutiny in 1857.
 The native troubles in Eastern Ben gal are due more to the clashing of creeds between the Hndus and the Mahommedans than to the seditious
 agitation against the British govern
 ment That phase originated in the
 natives feeling themselves aggrieyed
 because a new province was created I hy the division of Bengal; but they
 have now found that they can do nothing against the armed might of ! the British, and have turned their at tenthOn to the religious differences with the followers of the great rival faith.
 | The Hindus have made a great bat tle-cry out of the alleged dissertation
 of their gods by the Mahommedans. They have made pictures of group
 af broken Hindus idols. which they parade in the streets to excite reli' gious passions against their oppo- nents. As a matter of fact, these idols were roughly made effigies oi mud, decorated with tinsel. carried fin procession OF religious fete-days and then thrown away.
 Because the Mahommedns hastened the destruction of these mud-idols a day or two, the Hindus made the in
 cident a casus belIi and wrote in flamatory articles about it in theii
 newspapers.
 This conflict between the two re ligions is made more difficult to deal with by the fact that the followers Of each faith live side by side, all : lover India.