Show 4 VICTORIA CAPTURED + Queen of England Surrenders to the American Girl A GRACIOUS CONCESSION f OUR IDENS MAKE GOOD WIVES FOR THE NOBILITY + Was Alarmed at First But SCr FeaTs Rnve Beei AllayedSocial Gaieties Gaie-ties of the Week at IfmdonAt tack On Chnstinn Science and QuackeryCurzons Off For India + Copyright LR9S by the AssocIated Press London Nm 12The social gaieties of the week centered in two big Iar ties the Duke of Portlands at Velbeck Abbey and the Duke of Newcastles at his mansion in Clumber park Two splendid balls were given the house parties of Velbecl Abbey and Clumber exchanging visits The Duke of Port lands guests included the Duke and DuchessQ Gonnauht Lord ana Lady Curzon of ICendleston Mr A J Bal Lour and Lady Randolph Churchill while 7111 Henry White the United States charge affaires ran down for cdnesdays ball at Clumber returning return-ing to town in time to attend the re qUlem mass for the repose of the soul d of Lady Cromer on FrIday which was a very irnrresive function The Prince of Vales has been giving a mens house party at Sandrlngl1am and his birthday on Nov 9 was cale brat ed very quietly owing to the recent re-cent death of the Queen or Denmark The usual dinner to the people employed em-ployed on his estate was omitted but each family was given a quantity of provisions instead The prince is now well enough to take part in the hooting which Is about to commence 1t Sandringham He only occasionally needs the aid of a stick in walking and intends to pass the winter quietly going abroad after Christmas and remaining on the contl neat until Easter The queen has moved the court from I Balmoral to Windsor where she will reside for about five weOks thence going go-ing to Osborne Isle of Wight H appears that her majesty recently I expressed her views on the marriage I of 11lemhers of the English arIstocracy with American girls She confessed that she 1t first viewed these marrIages with sore anxiety hut added that her fears have since been completely tll lay d and the queen now thinks that American girls from the breadth of I their education independence and rapid changing life are better able to adapt themselves to a new envIronment than j the more stoic English girls The queen also 1hinlw it unfair to insinuate insinu-ate that mercenary motives are the frequent cause of the marriages of impoverished im-poverished nobles to American beirCs CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ATTACKED The rccliitions i made at the inquest over the remaIns of Harold Freerie correspondent or the New York TImes who died on Oct 19 at Kanley have aroused considerable feeling against ChrIstian Scientists Canon Riton A reaching in Westminister Abbey 1tt 4y tracted attention to this matter by a I vehement protest against the growth of this and kIndred sects He is a j fashionable preacher and addresses a great social congregation many of I whom are well known to be Christian Scientists who number among their recruits re-cruits Lady Dunmore and Lady Abin gel Canon Riton warmly denounced the greed belief in quackery which is now prevalent and emphasized the iact that this spirit of credulity is growing with the enormous expansion of education edu-cation and mechanical and scientific progress He said Boston is th6 l11lSt cultured City of the most progressive progres-sive nation in the world Jet parts of Boston are given up to mediums wIzards wIz-ards and astrologers As an instance of this he said A part of women in Boston recently dressed themselves in white and sat up nil night long wailing for the milJen ium Yet the United States is a practical prac-tical country A curious instance of muscular ChrIstianity Chris-tianity arising out of a ritualistic controversy con-troversy has occurred in the parish church of Cleyedon Somersetshire where the antiritualists proposed to interfere with the services The vicar announced that in response to his suggestion sug-gestion he had received a gift of brass Birmingham knuckles which he added he lad distributed among the members of the choir and orchestra enjoining them to use the knuckle dusters freely if any obstruction of the service was offered The next Sunday he added that he himself had carried knuckle dusters for the past t 20 rears i DEPARTURE OF THE CUnZONS 1 t Lord Curzn of Kedleston the new viceroy Qf India and Laiy Curzon start for India on Dec 16 They evidently intend to make lavish beginningof their ho pit < l1it as they have already ordered 10000 ball programmes 5500 evening part eards 1500 garden party cards 2000 dinner party invitation cards 55CO at home cards and 1300 menu cards > It appears that before assuming the title young Curzon called upon Baron Curzon the HUe borne by Earl Hpwe head of the CurzonHowe family and a ked him if 11e objected to his so doing The baron said he had no objection ob-jection if Curzon undertook to be known as Baron Curzon of Kedleston and allow the title to drop when he succeeds his father as Lord Scarsdale The longexpected Life of Parnell by Barry OBrIen was published this week by Smith Elder and has been lengthily reviewed by the English press It is generally admitted that 1111 OBrien has done hIs work well and impu1tially But the volumes are none the less disappointing as they are more in the nature of a political biography biog-raphY than a Boswellian portrait There are however some interesting revelations revela-tions in regard to the Clannaga41 which it appears sent an agent to London in the spring of 1878 to discuss the question of united action with Mr Parnell But the conferences came to nothing I Mr OBrien says 1Ilr Parnell had the I strongest sympathies with Fenianism but was resolved not to be managed by Fenians nor aided br any force t whatever F In another place 31r OBrien says It is idle to shill the truth The National Na-tional League of America was run by revolutionists who iyere held in clie 1c so far as they were held In check at all by the fact that they had Parnell to deal with |