The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-10
CAPPENT Frs
70 RETURN
FROM CHINA
Former Residents of Cap
-ital Turn Faces
Homeward
By JEAN ELIOT.


"A and Mrs. w. Boyd Carpen.
ter, sometime residents of Washing
ton, are turning their faces home
ward. They sailed a day or two
ago, but are making their way to
this country via the Suez canal and
Europe and do not expect to reach
New York until along about the
middle of January.
The return of the Boyd Car
penters will be right welcome, for
Mr.. Carpenter is a man Of great
originality and brilliant attain
ments. His wife is dear and their
house in Chevy Chase-bef they
went off to the Orient-was the
gathering place for a most inter.
esting little coterie of intellectuals.
1t is to be hoped that they will
stay on here, but their plans are
so far most indefinite. Mr.. Car
penter will probably make connec-
tons with the faculty of some uni.
versity-just before he went away
he was offered the chair of political
economy at the University of Vir-
ginia-but he and his wife are plan
ming to come to Washington before
they settle down anywhere, and
they are shipping their household
goods direct to Baltimore.
During all the parlous days of
political troubles, wars and rumors
of wars in China, Mr.. Carpenter
has been teaching and lecturing
for the Methodist Episcopal Mission
in Picking, devotipg himself to the
instruction of Chinese students in
international relations, polite a
science and American history, with
special reference to the Pacific.
He has found time, however, to
compile several valuable volumes,
which are being used as text books
--one on the elements of interna
tional relations and another on the
elements of political science-and
he has come into close touch with
Oriental problems, and studied
Chinese history in China with the
object of lecturing on such subjects
following his return to America.
OF British Birth. Writer
Is NaturaliZed American.
A naturalized American and mar
rted to West Virginia lady, Mr.
Carpenter is an Englishman by
birth and much of his interesting
career has been passed in England.
He is the son of the Right Rever-
end William Boyd-Carpenter, who
was Bishop of Ripon. Educated at
Victoria University, Yorkshire, and
Cambridge University, he afterward
took post graduate courses at Ber-
lin, Gottengen and Paris UNIVERSE
ties, acquiring the basis of that
cosmopolitan culture which makes
him sue ha fascinating companion.
LNr1ns esIx- L..
the Scotch Educational Department
the work including the supervising
of the examinations Of students de-
ties. At the same period he was a
University Extension lecturer in Law
and History and was selected to
study educational movements in
Germany, Belgium, Austria, Egypt
and France.
Later he was for six years the
parliamentary secretary ins the
House of Lords BRITISH for the
Colonial Department dealing with
constitutional law and practice,
especially dealing with the policies
Of the government of Australia and
South Africa. At this time, the
official spokesman of the colonial
office in the House of Lords was
the Duke of Marlborough and in
the House Of Commons, the Hon.
A. ]. Lyttleton. When parlia-
ment was not sitting, his work
was that of official lecturer on law
and history in the mechanics insti-
tute Of England. Mr.. Carpenter is
the author of such works as The
Political Background of the French
Revolution, The Elements of Politi-
cal Science, The Elements of Inter-
national Law, Syndicalism in
France.