Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-13
About Well Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Folger Library Receives Drama in Film
Georgetown's Quaint Book Shop.
Phillips Memorial Gallery

ascendency.
Mr.. Bingham, American Ambassa-
dor to the Court of st. James, was one
of the guests at the farewell luncheon
given to Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir
by the Royal Empire Society in Lon
don. Lord Tweedsmuir, the new gov.
ernor general of Canada, is the If
tenth governor to be appointed to
that coveted position. Speaking at
the luncheon he said he liked the
word empire" That he intended to
60 on using it. British commonwealth
of nations was no doubt fine phrase
and a more accurate description of
the imperial polity, but the word "em-
pire," particularly at this time and
under the beloved King George, was
all-embracing.
Uncle Sam and Mrs. Sam may
think they are having time with
their potatoes and pigs. but it's not
a circumstance to what John Bull
and Miss Britannia are going through
with between the Milk Marketing
Board and the Central Milk Distribu-
ton Committee-those are just few
of England's new alphabets. They
are also dealing with the problems OF
fish, potatoes and bakers bread
Mrs. Thomas Carlyle's beloved
friend and intimate, Geraldine Jews
bury, who amused and eXasperated
her, is. the subject of a new book by
Susanna Howe, which she calls Ger
aldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors"
the latter were many but the
author, whose book is published by
Allen Unwin, publishers. presents her
as misjudged woman, very clever.
very daring, often unconventional and
ahead of her time.
1t has been some time since the
letters of Geraldine were read, but
it is recalled that in those letters
which passed between Mrs. Carlyle
and her, and which Miss Jewsbury
gave to the public, there were some
that should have been left out or
at least expurgated At the time those
letters were published it was perhaps
not generally known that Mrs. Car
lyle had ever seriously considered
divorcing her husband. And it was
also difficult to imagine her as having
been jealous of her grouchy. dyspeptic
husband with whom she usually had
great patience in spite of the splitting
headaches from which she suffered.
In The Victorians and Their Read
ings" Miss Amy Cruise has given a
delightful treat to readers both old
and young, for she has set forth the
much slandered Victorian period in
a charmingly original manner. The
book is illustrated just as one would
have liked it and the Victorian group
of writer's, which includes portraits
Of Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Thackeray,
BulWer-Lytton and other contempt
raries, is most interesting The de-
lightful story of Queen Victoria. who
was so pleased with Alice in Won
derland" that she asked complete
set of CAROLS works and was
rewarded by receiving his "a Syllabus
of Plane and Algebraical Geometry
and others of his profound mathe-
NAUTICAL writings. is one of the many
amusing incidents Miss Cruise relates
Ladies of the Press: Now let the
monarchs of the Fourth Estate roll
that with their cigarettes. and next
Spring when the ladies make their
debut under the chaperonage of
MeSsrs. Harpers, HE them to the book
stalls and there surreptitiously tuck
a copy under their arms Mrs Ishbel
Ross is engaged in writing what is
advertised as a complete history of
women in newspaper work-it should
be spicy, bit gossipy and altogether
as a newspaperwoman of parts and
experience, and novelist as well.
Washingtonians look upon the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine as a
friend and neighbor and take a par
donable pride in everything that con-
Germs it. They feel kind of pos
sessorship when it is spoken of and
it naturally follows that they are
much interested in a pamphlet re-
Gently issued by the Box Tree
Press of Milwaukee, Wis, entitled
collecting National Geographic
Magazines" 1t is an essay by Mr..
Edwin c. Buxbaum, who is interested
in the collection of the magazines.
He says in speaking of the phenom-
email growth of the publication, "A
clairvoyant insight on the part of
the editors and presidents of the So
ciety in the interest of the average
man in foreign events and their pic
tured representation . the increase
and diffusion of scientific knowledge"
In fact. it is the varied contents of
each number and the fine illustrations
which appeal to all classes of readers