Evening star., 1934-09-23

Charlotte was the daughter of Robert
Easton, city merchant who lived in
Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, and
the granddaughter of Mrs. John
Cameron, shocking old lady of the
late eighteenth century. Charlotte
was born in 1855, at about the time
when Dante Gabriel Rossetti was
working hard, with Holman Hunt and
Mlllais and others, to make the Eng
liSh public recognize the Importance of
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This
is noteworthy because Charlotte was
to become an artist herself and the
friend of RoSsetti, as we'll as of Oscar
Wilde and Swinburne She died at
her home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, in
1893. when all England was talking
about Hitler and wondering what he
meant in the European puzzle. When
she died she was Dame Charlotte
CaStleton, D. B. E., r. A. In 1876
she had married Theodore Wickham
Castleton Of the ex-consular service.
She had produced only two children
to her mothers four, but she had
done many other things.
The story of Charlotte's life is told
backward by Mr. Sieveking, from her
death to her birth-a difficult method
but we'll carried out. An epilogue
called With Benefit of Relations"
purportS to give extracts from a
biography of her published in the
miniature memoir series of artists.
In this we find that when the critical
judgment of posterity has crystallized
Charlotte Castleton will be found
among the most outstanding figures
in the history of art in this country
between 1880 and 1910" Her partici-
patton in the militant suffrage move
ment Of Mrs. PankhurSt is apollo
getically treated in the memoir. and
the blame for it and the regrettable
fact" that she was actually, under a
JuStifiable misrepresentation on the part
of the police, arrested" is placed with
the influence OF her friend Harriet
Garslde. The tragedy of her daugh-
ter's death at the age of l9, followed
by the suicide of the girls fiance and
the depression from which Charlotte
suffered for some years, are men
toned with appropriate regret, but
there is no hint OF the secret which
Charlotte carried from that time until
her death How could there be. when
the only other person who knew it
was DR.. Fountain. though Theodore
DID suspect? The memoir concludes ::
She died, as she had lived, a woman
untouched by the many social and
political developments of her era.
existing solely in the world of her art. "
How little the writer of the memoir
knew about Charlotte Castleton! Mr..
Sleveking has carried on Charlotte s
retreat down the procession of the
years without ever losing his thread
or allowing us to lose interest.
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A Study of the N. R. A. BY Mi
chael F. Gallagher New York:
oxford University Press.
Mr.. GALLAGHER, prominent
lawyer with wide experience in
connection with various Government
departments and a lecturer at the
John Marshall Law School of Chicago
University, here discusses for the per-
son who wishes to be informed about
what IS going on in his country but
has no mind for technicalities some
OF the significant questions raised by
the N r. A. The most important
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IS the relation Of N. r A. to the Ameri-
can constitutional system. What will
happen when N. R. A. faces the United
States Supreme Court? The recovery
act is emergency legislation" but "it
is perfectly clear that the existence
OF an emergency does not clothe the
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