Evening star., 1935-06-02
About Well-KnOwn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Nine. Lebrun Arriving on Ship She Chris
tened-Blue Eagle in Migration Prime
Minister BaldWin's Charities.

ard, came from a family Of radicals.
but is now classed with the "repub-
lican nobility" M. Pierre Laval. of
peasant stock-and proud Of it-has
developed q strong conservative ten
dency besides being . pillar Of society
In Paris.
Mr.. Stanley Baldwin is also of the
MacDonalds Of Scotland on his moth
er's side, but his patience in always
biding his time must have come from
his Quaker ancestry on his fathers
side His fortune came through the
Baldwins, as his maternal grand
father was a dissenting minister Of
the Wesleyan Chapel, George Brown
Macdonald. who was the father of
four most attractive daughters, who.
In q charming household of the great
est simplicity, gathered around them
a society noted for its brilliancy and
cleverness. They all married men Of
note. Lockwood Kipling, father Of
Rudyard Kipling; Burne-Jones, the
distinguished painter; Sir Edward
POINTER, another of Englands great
artists. and Mr.. Alfred Baldwin. father
of Stanley, and one Of the great
English manufacturers. all took their
wives from the simple parsonage.
A good story is going the rounds
about Mr.. Baldwin. who never lets
his left hand know what his right
hand is doing in the way Of charity:
1t was during a walking tour through
Doncaster that he happened to hear
that two philanthropic old ladies in
a certain village were straining their
slender means in keeping an asylum
for feeble minded girls. He was much
touched by the story, so continued
his walk some distance away, where
he collected 200 dirty. crumpled pound
notes which he wrapped in q piece
of soiled newspaper together with a
letter to the old ladies written in the
style of tramp, explaining the gift,
and adding that he might some day
ask for their charity. The package
was dispatched by a yokel he bribed
to silence.
There is on exhibition In the Smith
sonian Museum some lovely examples
of fore-edge painting. an are being re-
vived after having fallen into diSuse
for some years. It was in use in the
Seventeenth Century-and perhaps
much earlier-and was a process used
in painting the fore -edges OF q book,
the painting not being visible until
the leaves were famed" or spread
when the picture comes into full
view. An exquisite art and one that
never ceases to excite interest.
1t was brought to its highest state
Of perfection by Edwards. who had
book bindery in Halifax-date not
known. perhaps the Eighteenth Gen.
tury-and it was under his supervision
that some beautiful work was turned
out. There are extant in England two
volumes OF the Works" of Charles /,
bound by Mearne. who practiced the
art of fore-edge painting and was IA
nous in his day. These books seem to
have been bound for Charles II, and
on the edges are painted Tudor roses
and other decorations.
Mrs. Sue Buckingham Moulton and
Mrs. Alfred Lee are attracting a good
deal of attention in art circles in
Philadelphia by reviving the art and
decorating some popular and beloved
books generally read today. Mrs.
Moulton, a well known miniature
painter, has decorated two volumes
OF the diary Of John Evelyn. Charles
Dickens Christmas Carol" Chaucer's
"Capterh,trv Ta1ocb and fba Ero-oh
fairy tales Of the Countess D'Aulnoy,
while Mrs. Lees work includes
Hardy's Jude, the Obscure" and "A
Tale of Two Cities" Mrs. Moulton
seems to have successfully applied the
double. fore-edge painting, and it Is
described as follows: When the gilt
front edges of the book are spread or
famed in one direction a certain
picture comes into view and when
the process Is reversed quite another
is seen. Both, however, are designed
in the spirit of the story contained
in the volume illustrated" There
are some examples of double FORE
edge painting In the rare book di-
vision of the Library of Congress. If
memory Is not truant, one Is a CODY
OF Crabbe's poems and another of
Psyche" poems by Mrs. Tighe. the
painting having been done in 1912.
Beautiful English scenes are the sub
jects.
The process used by the two artists
In Philadelphia Is The edges
OF the paper must first be carefully