Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04

Marlborough street police court Wednes-
day for being drunk and disorderiy in
Piccadilly, is a bachelor peer of forty
six. He is not a prominent figure in poll
tics or society-in fact. he strongly dis
likes society, and frankly detests being
waited upon. He is. however. popular
member OF a. great many London clubs.
where he goes by the name of Sol" a
slow, deliberate talker with a curious. in
terrogative manner. he has the reputa-
ton of being most persistent questioner,
his favorite phrase being, Eth? what?
The earl served with credit in the late
Boer war as lieutenant colonel of the
North Somerset Yeomanry He is the
tenth earl. and succeeded his father in
1904. On his mothers side he is great
grandson of Canning-hence- his name,
George Spencer Canning Boyle.
His mother was a famous beauty in
1850. when all London raved about her.
His family history Is full of romance. The
first earl was a poor law student at the
Middle Temple In the reign OF Henry III
one Richard Boyle 'out at elbows and
often hungry" Richard sold his few be-
longings and went to Ireland with s27 as
the sum total of his wealth. He found
favor with good Queen Bess. and died frst
acres.
English Cheese-Paring.
A curious talk of a conversational kind
and Americans in keeping green the
memory of departed geniuses took place
yesterday at the meeting of the Keats
Shelley Memorial Association. The secre
tary pointed out that the English sub
Scribers to the memorial of the two poets
in Rome had been somewhat backward,
as they had only contributed G1,cO0,
while Americans had sent s2.J0O, and
searching questions were put to the
whprpfnrn
suggestions that We're advanced in reply
were that Americans, as rule, are
weather. than EngliShmen, that they give
much larger donations than are usual in
this country, and that they have fewer APP
peals of the sort to meet than the English.
The Earl of Crewe pointed out that
there was considerable difficulty in get
ting subscriptions for such objects in
England, and mentioned the fact that 1t
has been found impossible to obtain even
the small sum of eco or SO needed to
complete the purchase of Coleridge's cot
tage. The same cheese-paring spirit has
been observable in the recent difficulty
about raising the sum needed to prevent
the demolition of Crosby Hall. Happily.
the Keats-Shelley memorial is doing very
well. despite the thinness of the stream
of British subscriptions, and the house in
Rome is to be opened to the public by
the King of Italy early in the new year.
Great Autograph Sale.
There is chance for the curiosity col
lector If the house of lords library does
not acquire the extraordinary collection
of parliamentary franks" Tor free post
age passes), in twenty stout morocco gilt
volumes, which are on view at a bookshop
In the West End. Such an extraordinary
and representative collection of auto
graphs has surely never been brought to-
gether before. Franking was in vogue
from 1884 to 1910, and the collection COW
ers the whole of this period. InNcasually
turning over the bulky volumes / found
hundreds of wel-known signatures. in
Guiding those of Lord Byron, Lord Nelson.
William Pitt. George Canning, Lord ST
Vincent, dozen members of the royal
family. and many more interesting folk
The envelopes. are most neatly laid
down. and there are biographies of every
member of both houses of parliament
Four very fat books contain the franks
of all the archbishops- and bishops of
England and Wales between 1ISi and 1910,
the pages emblazoned with their coats-of-
arms and giving particulars of each prel-
ate. L. II. MOORE.