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Actually, of course, the Earl of Birkenhead is sensitive to the slightest "Orient trouble" affecting India. He keeps his counsel, and sometimes he keeps it over a glass and a cigar; but when trouble is scented the quick legal mind that made him Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22) kindles, and he speaks as he did last week, before the House of Lords...
While the Earl of Birkenhead was speaking, an Indian riot was actually in progress between Moslems and Hindus at Larkana, Upper India. Some 47 persons were injured in a bellicose dispute arising around an old Hindu woman and her three children alleged to have been mistreated by a Moslem...
...Earl of Derby, 17th of his line, owner of the broad acres over which the race would be run, technical host to the dripping throng, actual host to His Majesty, looked glum, embarrassed. He had anticipated a pleasant party; heart less elements had interfered...
...downpour of especial violence preceded the parade to the post. Then the King, standing in the Earl of Derby's box, the Prince, ensconced at the Valentine's Brook jump, the cheered host, others of high and low degree saw the sun burst through the clouds, do its belated best. Thirty-seven horses started the agonizing 4½-mile chase. Over stone fence, green hedge, wide ditch and stream, they charged. One by one, sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle...
Among letters and manuscripts, there are a letter by Ruper Brooke; a manuscript of Arthur Symonds; pamphlets of the Earl of Rochester, the abridged editions of which were not allowed in this country; and original pamphlets of Ryron's. "Don Juan," "Mazeppa," and "Manfred." A volume which should be of interest to everyone is a first presentation edition of "When We Were Very Young," signed by the author and Christopher Robin with letters from both and signed photographs of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooth...