The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-03
LOSES LAST MEMBER
OF HOME RULE PARTY

hures, All tie aiSS. oil liandoVs eo,nposl.
~ :, eoY1tai .g period from 1702 when
.c VAS seventeen years OF age until
I'ai. when nc was bccomjnn NINA
comprising 32 volumes OF operss. OF
s J, o. mes OK YrAtorios. volumes Of odes
ana aercnaues. IL volumes or ntscni
ianoous sacred music ana II voiun,as
OF caniatns. These were presented 10
george III. number or years after thu
as@ IN. /. Of Hnnlcl hy Ills lifelong am
ahucnsls, John Christopher Smith IN
GIautunc for King George III I'M ytn,.
continued 10 him the pension wbirti
iiNd neen granted olim by tnnt mon
Wales. $50 y
This musical library, which is very
taTEe. ana 10 which tho Prince Consort
!ihdc numerous valua bic aoditiona is
70 pe housed nj the British Museum in
< specially constructed room in the new
annex, which is almost completed, III
Mon,agu Place, ana there tue contants
OF me royal musical library will be
aFaiiablc 70 students. English anu
foreign, under the conditions that AL
ready apply 70 the most valuable works
IN tie departments OF printed books
ana manuscripts a the British Museum
hinE GEORGES decision TO thus place
the celebrated collection cf musical
"ofAs at Eucking ham Palace. hitherto
inaccessible TO the public Within fhe
reach or students from all parts Of tho
world, has aroused Il great deal OF AZ
tentton In musical circles.
. 4
Baron Banffy, who died last Sunday.
was perhaps the only Prime Minister
Of Emperor Francis Joseph who knew
ms country well. having spent a couple
a az gs'5 1pnyfia IGhs United states
Universities Of Berlin and Leipsic OF
relatively humble origin, he worked
his way from the lowest grades Of the
orioial hierarchy TO the position OF
provincial governor, from which he was
n "a II I hn Z
cabinet, eventually becoming its Pre-
nicr. II was while holding that Of
lice that tho Emperor bestowed upon
hin the title Of baron, together with
Lords.
His wife was village school teach
CT, and. like him. not a Roman Catho-
iic. but n Calvinlst of the most rigid
Type. of course. he was therefore as
Premier most obnoxious to the great
nobility Of Hungary which is Catholic
to-,a man, and when he succeeded in
ene:tinS the, repea1 Of certain civil
81 bilities OF members Of the Jewish
iaith; and the passage OF laws proyid-
iES Tor civil marriage and civil regis
tration OF birth, Il severe boycott waa
instituted against him, and against tho
baroness. in which even archd,kes aud
alchducheSses of the imperial family.
Joined. In fact, the couple were fore
eu 10 Withdraw from most OF the enter
tainmcnts and state functions in honor
OF the Hungarian Millennium, several
years ago F7fs1 ~
Eventually this boycott forced Baron
BanffS to resign tile premiership; not
because of ministerial defeat, for he
retained a large legislative majority,
pst solely on account Of the aiimosity
or the mobiles towards him, and their
obstructionist tactics which rendered
all legislation impoSSibe.
forced to choose between doing with
OUT Legislative government in Hungary
on the one hand. and sacrificing his
trusted Premier on tile other, the EN-
peror chose the latter alternative, and
got even with his recalcitrant mobiles
by appointing the baron to the posi-
ton OF. Grand Master and Grand Mares
ethal. that is to say, the highest digni-
tary Of the royal court of Hungary,
which gave him not only the "pas" of
aii the members of the Hungarian no.
lility. but likewise the right of decid-
ing who among them were to be adj
United TO court, and who. barred, az
we'll as to determine the Invitations to
DC sent to court Iuncttcns. and to act
as arbiter in ali questions Of precedence
among lie nobility.
Copyright. 1911, BY the Brentwood II
Company