Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-14
ON PEACE
Count LutzoW to Make Ad-
dress Before Congress.
AMERICAN TOUR PLANNED
Bohemian Scholar and Historian to
Sail for This Country
Next Saturday.

LONDON, January 13.-Count Lutzow,
the Bohemian scholar and historian, will
leave London January 20 for an extend
ed tour of America. and will. besides CIV
ing an address before Congress. deliver
a series of lectures among many of the
chief universities of America.
The address before Congress will be
largely devoted to the subject of uni
versal peace and early attempts in that
direction made by a king of Bohemia,
King George Of Podebrad. who proposed
a union of European countries to put a
stop to war. The lectures at the uni
versities will be on the history and litera-
ture of Bohemia, politics as far as pos
sible being eliminated.
The count is due to arrive in WASH
ington February 4. and the address 10
Congress will be delivered on the next
day.
Count Lutzow is known throughout
Europe as an authority on things Bo-
hemian, and he has lectured and writ
ten about his country in almost every
university on this side OF the water.
This, however, will be his first trip to
America, and he is looking forward to
it with a great deal OF interest. He
was induced to make 1t by the 30
hemian Society of Chicago and by the
fact that in Nebraska ands other west
porous Bohemian colonies. A big, jolly
man, who is usually surrounded in his
London residence, where he and the
countess entertain, by the best OF the
literary circle of England and the con-
tinent, the count Is sure to appeal to
the American collegian.
Honor Paid Edwin A. Abbey.
An exhibition of the last work Of the
late Edwin A. Abbey, the American ar
fist, was opened with the new year b!
the Royal Academy at Burlington House
Such exhibitions are signal honor
which the academy grants only in the
case of It's most distinguished deceased
members.
The pictures selected for the exhibit
were picked by Mrs. Abbey, with the as
sistance of members of the Royal Acad'
envy who were in close touch and sym
pathy with the work of her husband.
Among the pictures are several sketches
made preliminary to the paintings whfci
Abbey did for the state capitol of Penn
sylvania at Harrisburg. Probably the
most Interesting feature of the exhibit
are the pen and ink sketches of Shakes.
pearean characters. numbered among the
last efforts of the dead artist. These were
the result of a lifelong study of Shakes
peare's works and the Shakespeare coun
try made by Abbey, but he had not pro-
to exhibit any OF 1t before his death.
The Abbey exhibit Is in charge of Sill
Frederick A. Eaton, secretary Of the
Royal Academy. After preparing the eX
hibit Mrs. Abbey sailed for New York
The Abbey exhibit at Burlington House
will be followed by an exhibition of ole
masters. which will be the most importan
given by the academy in recent years.
Government Owned Telephones.
With the taking over Of the Nationa
Telephone Company January /, TIN
government became the owner of prac
tically all the telephone facilities o
the British Isles
The property of the company become:
the possession of the state and the Is.
600 employees join the ranks OF th1
civil servants of the kingdom. Generall.
speaking the officials and the employe:
of the company are not pleased witt
the change. as they feel that 1t vii
initiate against their chances of advance
nent.
Now that the government is in supreme
control OF the telephone faculties of thu
country, it is expected that efforts viii
be made to extend 1t greatly, especially
in the rural districts. where the tele
phone is almost unknown. Even in Lon
don the telephone directory is no largel
than those of several cities of thu
United States with populations OF les:
than 100000