| Show LONDONS o s WINTE I It GARB It Ills Not Been Donned Yet and Shopkeepers I ers are In Despair NEW BIOGRAPHY Of QUEEN VICTORIA Jockey Sloan Sharply CrltlrllM for Uauiblltiglllx 1rlre for a Ilrdhole < of the llir trl < ul Seuion London Nov Copyrighted 18T by the Associated Presx3Tlie court mourning for the duchess of Took ham made but little difference In the gaiety of London although many ot the theaters the-aters were closed on the dAY of the funeral Aside from this tile week has ben the same as usual The phenomenally line weather prevailing pre-vailing Is I the despair of the storekeepers store-keepers who say they cannot sell any winter clothing The month of October was the driest since 1831 Laburnums prltnrofces and wall flowers are glowIng glow-ing and strawberries are being gathered gath-ered In the south of England A now biography of Queen Victoria written by Richard R Holmes uf the S A the queens librarian at Windsor appeared on Trlday and Is I attracting much attention 1 was prepared under un-der the immediate supervision of her majesty and abounds In family Incidents 1 Inci-dents shows the queen has never entirely en-tirely abandoned the relaxations ot her earlier joins and points out that within with-in the past fifteen ear she has sung vilth Tot and has taken drawing lea 1 jna from Mitch The biography given among other mat an extract front her majeptss Journal In 1SP5 de nor bing her pilgrimage to tho In alldes during her visit to Paris I reads Ill stood at the arm at Nona leon III his ncrhcw before the cotlln of Englands bitterest foe I the granddaughter ot that king who hated him most and who most vigorously opposed him and this very nephew who bears his name being my nearest and dearest ally The organ of the church played God save the queen at the time Strange and wonderful In I deed I acting u s If In thlq tribute of respect to a departed dead foe old en nltlei and rivalries wore wlp1 out and the seal at haven placed upon that bond of unity which Is I now happily hap-pily established between two great and powerful nations May heaven bless and prosper It From the cumment heard In the clubs It Is8 I not ikily theard Mr John Lawson Johntone at Kingwood Kent the principal director ot the well known and largely advertised com pony mho turns out 10 lie the pur chaser of the prince of Wales famous racing cutter Britannia will ho received re-ceived with open arms In yachting Ire cles In fact It Is I rumored that the e pitnep old the yacht on the exprvr condition that the urhur hould not race her and that she Is I to ue rl d ruler rigged as i a Mr JihnMone also told the Interviewer Inter-vIewer how he beat recently paid 750 rounds 4370 for a bed upon which Prince Charles slept before the battle of Culloilen This he offered to prc Pont to Queen Ictorla who rplc that onlY nn One or two occasions had lie arepld Presents tram a commoner common-er and she could nnt see her way to < accept the 11 Howevir It was a i verv pleasant letter very pleasant said Mr Johnstone who added that the duke of Argyll had promised to One and Floor In the bet I so soon go the mate could be arranged The newspapers jeer at the Inappropriate ncsVof isaPlhrePCttt nerfs at the election its the Car hells of which clan the duke of Aravll M I at the head were the deadly enemies of the Stuarts An echo at the tnmou Arlamont tragedy was heard at Leeds on Wednesday when Alfred J Monson who In 1S33 was tried on the charge of murdering his pupil Lieut Dudley Cecil Hnmbrouch the Jury bringing In a verdict at Not Proven wu um maned i a deserting big wit The latter lat-ter Paid her husband had left her In IVbnmry 1896 anti had foiled to provide I pro-vide for hr and tier six children all at whom are under 16 years ot ag The rportirg newspaper have de voted much attention io Tod Sloan the American Jockey since he has begun be-gun winning rnes 00 the English turf Sloane mngnllcpnt otyle at living its tomshps the English sportsmen Ho fins apartments nt the lintel Cecil with his valet And goes back and forth hy train to the various race meetln ga I 10 now announced that he will probably be here a year Sloane milled Croker to Use the Jockey club however Is I much criticized for bet llmr Ile find BOO rounds on St Cloud II for the Cambridgeshire stakes and as jockeys lifrf are not allowed to bet the Jockey clubs attention Is I being called to Bloanes proclivities I Is I urged that If he remains here he must be stopped from batting The Evening News hope the Jockey club wont enclosure gloss It over as I did when I par Neither the Cot And Cherub nt the Lyric theater nor The First nom nl the Globe theater are successful and The First nor will bo withdrawn today to-day and tht whole company of six wilt return to America Clement Scott us well as the London Lon-don critics generally has been unstinted un-stinted In his praise of May Buckley Scott says In Ihs Daily Tlegrphl We have not heMtnted to proclaim the cosmopolitanism cos-mopolitanism of dramatic art to the Injury perhaps of our people but briefly The Cat and the cheruh Is I orth a music hall turn and The First 10rn Is not worth an evenings enter tninment America Is I very welcome > to Ingland but she must give its better than we cal oduce and The first that Born to I not 10m fueling seems to have been noused bj Ileerbohm Trees offer to Daly for Ada Ilehan to appear In an ndaptation at the pat at Katherine In Tile Tamln of th Fhrew with which Tree opened the season at Her Majes tys Theater on Monday Auguatln Daly says t rnll ant have considered red It possible that Mr Tree would send mo such a managerial I nsult as tQ separate Miss It 0 hall from her companion com-panion and ask her to descend to play In an emasculated l version ot Shakes peores play after she has established her renown In the production with which she Is I distinguished Mrs James Brown Potter does not speak In mWe most complimentary terns at the Australian niansgem under un-der whoso direction she was Introduced to London as a star The season of eight weeks at the Duke of York theater for which the contract with Mrs Potter and Mr Bellew were engaged en-gaged closes tonightArld the American IOgd actress will rest In London for the winter continents win-ter after years of hard work In several 11 did not fxpect to Plot the Thor on Are when I como to London Mr Potter said bill I am greatly gratu fled by my success I am glad to he one at 1 tw Artier lean actresses who havo gained a post lion on the lldon toeI believe MaC Anderson Miss Rehan and myself my-self are the only ones Ten years ago when I entered tbe profession I determined to achieve I reputation overioachlnir the borders ot the I United States and I think I may cay without boasting that I have sue freed ed All things considered I am nUs fltd I with my London succors As ta a the theatrical piofesslon 1 cOIrnl < my only regret Is I that I did not adopt I twenty years ago Instead at ten I might Prefer to be ft painter or a writer but for a woman to da some sort at work make some vortol a career Is I better than drjwdllng I in society so-ciety And the temptat tons of thla life are less I than those at a 00001Y Woman Tor we work too hard and there Is I n IsAAo time to think of other thing And when letters com to me like one I had today rlln on a drlmhead nt Iort Uockhart where the are fighting the Indians thanklrg me for the Measure my work has given the writer rill when I think of the many friends worth knowing I have met throughout the world whom I would not have known under other clrtmlance I = oncTh nm sure that the compntlol ot the rrofess a n outIh Its trial |
