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I CHURCH FAMILY T "LI{. The King at Queen's Club. OM Tuesday the King showed his inter- est in football. when he visited Queen's Club to see the 'Varsity Ri-i-Iger match, and Prince Henry accompanied his father, and both enjoyed the experience. On Tuesday evening the King and Queen, Prin- cess Mary and Prince Henry were present at Madam Clara Butt's concert at the Albert Hall in aid of St. Dunstan's After-Care for Blinded Sailors and Soldiers. The Prince of Wales has quickly found much upon which to ex- pend his remarkable energy. This week he is fully occupied with engagements of various kinds. Prince Albert was on Tuesday in Glasgow, where he spent a busy day visiting works and public in- stitutions, presenting, medals and de- corations, and receiving delegations. C.F.N. Prediction Fulfilled. THREE weeks ago I stated that the Bishop of Ripon was about to resign his- See, and that probably he would accept a Canonry in Norwich Cathedral. The Bishop himself has now, in a letter to his Archdeacons, stated that he has accepted the Mastership of St. Cath- erine's College, Cambridge, to which is attached a Canonry in Norwich Cathedral. I shall consequently resign the Bishopric of Ripon early in next year." The announcement has been received with profound regret in the dio- cese. I hear from various sources that Dr. Drury will be cordially welcomed to Norwich and Cambridge. What the Prime Minister Heads. IN the Christmas number of John oi London's Weekly there is a most inter- esting article entitled" What Lloyd George Reads." The article is obviously written by an intimate friend, and is, therefore, all the more useful. There is a popular impression," says the writer, that Lloyd George does not read State papers—a complete fallacy. iIt may be safely said that no Minister reads as many, and that no Minister is as well acquainted with the voluminous literature issued by Government Depart- ments. He reads all important poli- tical speeches. He likes to' criticise the speaker's methods, discriminate between the good and bad passages, and indicate what the speaker might have said, and what he did not say." Papers of All Sorts. Papers of all sorts—religious, secu- lar, and literary—interest him, except the technical Press. Mr. Lloyd George always has a book or two oiiiiatid -nowadays usually novels. He is not a i' skipper.' If he likes a book he solemnly reads it through from cover to cover. He does not like gloomy books, nor those with sad endings. Historical novels are his favourites, and he has almost the passion of the schoolboy for tales of adventure and daring. The things which do not interest him in the least are modern romances, or the story which deals with psychology and the analysis of character. He must have action. Marked Passages. He has a large library, and even to- day, busy as he is, he does not keep it for show. He frequently sends for some book to which he wishes to refer, and has the lawyer's habit of marking important passages in pencil. It is interesting to look through his books and note the marked passages. He has an extra- ordinary capacity for remembering the exact place in which a particular phrase occurred in a particular book, even though it may he years since he read it. His Favourite Novelists. "Apart from novels he has no favourite books', except perhaps Macaulay's Essays ;-one of the first books he read as a boy-aiid George Henry Lewes's Robes- pierre. But there are many books that he continually uses. As to novels, The Cloister and the Hearth he admits to having read six or eight times in the course of his life. He thinks it one of the most wonderful novels ever written. His favourite novelists are Walter Scott, Dickens, Dumas, Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bulwer Lyttoh, Mayne Reid, Charles Ilcade, Fenimore Cooper, Mary Johnston, W. J. Locke, Jack London, Kipling, Stanley Weyman, and other such vivid writers. A Lover of Sermons. "A real lover of sermons, he likes to read them as well as hear them. He is said to have remarked that he would rather have been a great preacher than Prime Minister. If this is true, the re-- mark was probably due to the belief, shared by most great men, that they would have done better and been happier had they been prominent in some other < walk of life. His knowledge of the Bible is far more detailed than that of any other book. This is no doubt due to his early training and environment. The characters of the Bible, however, are not to him purely religious. He sees them from the human point of view, and indeed there is an added and more in- timate interest when you have been shown these Bible characters through the eyes of the Prime Minister. They live before your eyes and you understand them better. He can quote from the Bible never-endingiy, and here again he knows exactly where such and such a passage occurs." I have quoted exten- sively from this gripping article, and I should advise all (J.F.N, readers to get the Christmas number of John o' London's Weekly. Primate in Lighter Veia. ARCHBISHOPS- have their lighter mo- ments, moments when they feel, if they do not say, that dull care should be banished. I see that the Archbishop of Canterbury has been in his best form of late, and has shown that he has a strong vein of humour. Anyone who has been in close .contact with him knows that he possesses what someone has caned" the salt of life to a marked degree, although he is in public generally the most serious of men. In a recent after- dinner speech he told a story which I seem to recognise as one he told some time ago, but it is worth repeating. It seems a letter was addressed to him from France as follows, Arc-heveque Cantor- bery, Londres." It puzzled the postal authorities, and after some wanderings the words inscribed on it were, "Not known at the Canterbury Music Hall." Canterbury Associations. That, he went on) amid laughter, was a wholesome reminder to one holding his ¡ position and apt perhaps to be slightly puffed up by the thought of what his office signified. He 'told another story on the same occasion about a schoolboy who was askedv What is associated with Canterbury? The boy's reply was, Frozen mutton and archbishops." Dr. Davidson then playfully asked his i hearers to notice the order of priority. I should certainly say that if brevity is the soul of wit, then the boy to whom the 11 Archbishop referred meets the demand to the full. I should like to know the boy's schoolmaster's opinion of his effort. New Vicar of Bradford. I WITH the appointment of the first Bishop of Bradford comes the institution on Saturday of the new vicar of the city —the Rev. W. Stanton Jones, formerly Rector of Middleton. Mr. "Stanton Jones held -his farewell services at Middleton last Sunday. At the early celebration there were 270 communi- cants, and in the evening a great many people were unable to gain admission. The Rector was single-handed throughout the day. I venture to predict a great forward movement for the Church in Bradford, with so excellent a Bishop and so vigorous a leader at the cathedral church. Dean of Worcester and Housing. I DO not remember to have heard of a Dean being a builder of houses before. Dr. Moore Ede, the Dean of Worcester, has, however, decided to erect two houses as a contribution to the solution of Worcester's housing problem. He be-, lieves he will be able to build two thoroughly good houses for £ 500 each. If he achieves this, and secures the Government subsidy of £ 150, he believes he will be able to let them at a rent pay- able by the wage-earners of Worcester. The Dean is not without experience in building matters, for when at Gateshead and Whitburn he interested himself in the building of homes for aged miners. At Worcester, too, he has had experience in a garden city scheme. I St. Albans Diocese. IN the St. Albans Diocesan Gazette Bishop Edward Noel Hodges announces that "the Archbishop of Canterbury has asked me to take charge of the dio- cese until the new Bishop comes into possession. I need hardly say how un- equal I feel for such a burden, but I rely on a strength not my own, and I feel sure I may also rely on the sympathy and prayers of many in all parts of the and prayers of many in all parts of the diocese, whom I know and love as fellow- helpers in Christ." The Right Rev. E. N. Hodges was from 1890 to 1904 Bishop of Travancore and Cochin. For the next two years he was Assistant II Bishop of Durham, and from 1907 to 1914 Assistant Bishop of Ely. In the latter year he was appointed Assistant Bishop of St. Albans. For Assisting Students. RICHAKD STAPLFY, who is accom- I panying Dr. R. J. Campbell to the West Indies, established last year an Educa- tional. Trust for assisting students of both sexes who wish to enter a secondary school, or a college, or a university. Another object of the Trust is to aid re- search in educational matters. No re- ligious test is imposed upõn any scholar or teacher. Applications should be made to the Secretary, Sir Richard Stapley Trust, 1; Central-buildings, To thill- street, S.W. 1. An Engagement of Note. AN engagement of more than usual interest is announced. It is one between Captain H. S. Cadle, Reserve of Officers and late East Surrey Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cadle, formerly of Redcar, Yorkshire)- and now of Alleyn- road, Dulwieh, and Phyllis Mary, elder daughter of the Rev. W. Fowell Swann, formerly Vicar of St. Wilfrid's, Harro- gate, and Mrs. Swann, Sussex-gardens, Dulwieh. The Rev. W. Fowe'Il Swann is the recently-appointed successor to- Pre- bendary Rudolf as Secretary of the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society. A Deserved Tribute. AT a recent meeting of the York Dio- -P .1 cesan Board of Finance the Archbishop of York paid a highly appreciative tri- bute to the work in the diocese of the Rev. Edmund Sylvester Hore.. No doubt the Archbishop's tribute was well- deserved, for Mr. Hore has a record of much voluntary activity in the dio- cese. He is on the voluntary staff of St. Olave's, York, is Hon. Chaplain to the Archbishop of York, Hon. Secretary to the York Diocesan Mission Clergy, and honorary editor of the Diocesan Gazette. The Archbishop has offered Mr. Hore the vacant Honorary Canonry in York Minster. Premier's Gift to Church Army. IT was a most appropriate announce- ment that Prebendary Carlile had to make at the recent drawing-room meet- ing at 10, Downing-street, which was held in order to raise funds for the Church Army. The Prebendary an- nounced that the Prime Minister had re- cently sent to the Headquarters a cheque for £ 2,000 out of money entrusted to him for disposal for the relief of suffer- ing arising from the war. Among others present were Mrs. Lloyd George, who made a very cordial speech; Mr. H. Pike, Pease, M.P., who referred to the work of the Church Army on behalf of ex-ser- vice men and their dependents. He said a farm had recently been presented to I the Church Army for the use of men who had fought in the war. i Rural Dean of Leicester Honoured. LEICESTER folk have heard with I genuine satisfaction that the Bishop of Peterborough has offered an Honorary Canonry of Peterborough Cathedral to the Rev. W. Thompson Elliott, Vicar of St. Peter's, Leicester. The honour is well deserved. Canon Elliott is Rural Dean of Christianity and wields a power- ful influence upon we Church life in Leicester. He is thoroughly alive, and when I attended the Church Congress I was present at his Sunday j evening service, when St. Peter's was ) crammed with a congregation of 1,200. I was told that almost every Sunday scores 1. are turned away. Of how many churches 11 can this be said nowadays? The Bishop's Tribute. I AT the final meeting of the Church Congress Committee the Bishop of Peter- I borough, in referring to the appoint- ment of Canon Elliott, said he had taken the step not only as a mark of apprecia- tion of the work Mr. Elliott did with such complete efficiency in connection with the Church Congress, but of work which he was doing as leader of the Church in Leicester. The success of the Congress was largely due to his inde- fatigable labours, but he felt that the man who was primarily responsible for the Church in the most important town of the diocese should be definitely con- nected with the Cathedral. In the past the appointment to a Canonry had gener-' ally been -regarded as a fitting reward for long periods of service, but, it was well to emphasize the fact that long ser- vice was not the only possible reason for the bestowal of the honour. It was possi- ble. in some cases for signal service to be rendered in some particular direction in such a way as to fully merit conspicuous recognition. r Railwaymen's Gratitude to Vicar. AT a concert given last .Monday night by the Underground Railwaymen of Lon- don at the Newington Hall, Manor-place, S.E., the Rev. Dr. Darlington, Vicar of Kennington, was presented by Mr. C. T. Cramp, President of the N.U.R., and Mr. Barton Wilde, E.C. of the A.S.L.E. and F., with two inscribed gold medal- lions for his many kind services to the Underground Railwaymen. Dr. Dar- 'lington expressed his great pleasure at receiving two such testimonials and be- ing thus associated with the two great bodies of the National Union of Railway- men and the Associated Society of Loco- motive Engineers and Firemen. An Interesting Marriage. A MARRIAGE solemnised at Eastham yesterday has a deep interest for many Liverpool folk. Miss Gladys Torr was married to Captain Ralph Edge, M.C. Miss Torr is the daughter. of Canon Torr, who for many years before the war wel- comed at his beautiful home, Cariett Park, Churchpeople from Liverpool for much-valued retreats from, time to time. Miss Torr herself has done lately in- valuable work for the Liverpool Diocesan Prevention and Rescue Association by paying personal visits to prominent busi- ness men and interesting them in the work. By this means she has raised up- wards of CI,800 for the emergency fund which was inaugurated for paying off de- ficits upon the ten various homes and shelters in the diocese whose activities had so far outrun their incomes. Famous Singer Retires. MADAME ADA CROSSLEY, the celebrated contralto vocalist, has retired. The announcement came as a surprise. Madame Crossley did not give a series of farewell coiieerts., and her voice, which has charmed thousands, is as beautiful as ever. Madame Crossley is the wife of Colonel Francis Muecke, of the w I Royal Air Force, and he felt it was time for her to give up her public career. She made her first appearance in Melbourne, and for three years her voice was the delight of Australian audiences. She reached England just before the death of Madame Patey; and succeeded her as soloist in the big oratorios. She sang thirty-seven times with Madame Patti. Queen Victoria, before whom she sang, praised her very highly. Her public life has extended over twenty-five years. Tribute to Bishop-Designate .1 Lincoln. WE shall bid him farewell with great regret, so far as our own diocese is con- cerned. But for the sake of the diocese of Lincoln and of our Church at large we shall rejoice that one endowed with, so much mental alertness, organising power, fullness of sympathy, width of experience and spiritual discernment should be called to share in the counsels of the Church. Great-things may be ex- -Peet-ed of his episcopate." Thus does the Bishop of Manchester pay tribute to the work of the Bishop-designate of Lincoln, who has for a little more than a year been Dean of Manchester. The Bishop says, He has also forwarded the work of our Christian congregations, and our friends in the Free Churches have learnt to value him as much as we do." His and Mrs. Swayne's work for our Church Rescue and Preventive Associa- tion is also mentioned by the Bishop. As a Churchman Dr. Knox is not of the same school of thought as the Bishop- designate, so his testimony comes all the more gracefully. A Vivid Picture. AT the meeting of the Save the Children Fund" Mr. T. P. O'Connor read the following extract from a pamphlet describing the arrival of a number of famine-stricken children from Austria: "The station platform was shining with moisture; the air as it blew from the mountains was raw and cold. Suddenly a long train appeared and drew into the station. One or two Red Cross women sprang briskly out. After them, slowly and languidly, flowed a wave of almost phantom-like little ones—child visitors from Vienna. A tiny toddler was weeping, and an elder girl was bend- ing towards the whimpering little one trying to comfort her. Her face was lined and sunken like the face of an old woman. Finding her consolation un- availing, she attempted to take the little child up in her match-like arms; but it was too much for her strength, and she had to set it down again. This little army formed itself up and marched slowly and painfully into the town." I For such a picture as this to reach the imagination of the British people will be to reach their generous hearts* 1 Laymen in the Pulpit. I am glad to see that the-Vicar of St. j Oswald's, Sheffield (Dr. Wesc-ott) has invited a number of laymen to preach at I his church on Sunday evenings during Advent. They are men of affairs anxious for the advancement of the Church unci the uplift of their fellow-men; they art men with a message and a wide experi, ence of life calculated to kelp the average congregation. This experiment, which has the full approval of the Bishop, might with advantage be adopted in many other parishes, especially where the incumbent is single-handed. A Great Publishing House. No publishing house has enjoyed a more interesting history than the famous establishment in Albemarle street founded by Lieutenant John Murray of the Marines in 1768. Its story has been much told, for the fascinating period of the second John Murray, in which Byron, Scott, and many other brilliant writers of the time flourished, has tended to obscure the merits of the third John Murray as publisher and man. This omission is in part being supplied by the present head of the house in a small book, John Murray III., which is about to appear. Bishops, Dogs and Deans. DR. GEE, Dean of Gloucester, respond- ing to a toast at the annual dinner of the Gloucester Chamber of Trade, said Bishop Gibson was a very hard-working man; but few people knew 4iow hard a Bishop had to work. But he (the Dean; did, and he had twice refused a bishopric, for it was a dog's life. As a Dean. his life was now a big holiday compared with his work in the North; but when the deanery was ready for his occupation he hoped to show that he, like his diocesan, was a working man. Dean's* incomes might seem large, but two years' income had to be spent in getting into the deanery, and he had to pay rates to the tune of £120 a year on a house he was not yet livijig in. At present, as a Dean, he was not a very affluent person. Value ef Child Life. SIR GEORGE NEWMAN, at one time Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education and now at the Ministry of Health, has just published his annua] report. It tells a story of real progress in caring for the children of the nation. He believes that as a result of the war there has arisen a new conception of the value of child life to the nation. There are, for example, now 600 school clinics as compared with 350. before the war, and special schools for defective children, attention to the health of elementary school children and open-air schools have all increased. On the other hand, it should be noted that there are still over 10,000 children under Poor Law, and that there are today in the workhouse 347 more children than last year. A Splendid Gift. IT is a very happy idea that has been put forward by the Anglo American • Society to make a permanent memorial of -the Prince of Wales's visit to America. It is to found a Chair of American History, Literature and In- stitutions for British Universities. The ( society has received a gift of £ 20,000 for this-purpose from Sir W. J. Watson, Chairman of the Maypole Dairy Com- pany. The Prince of Wales, in reply to Sir W. J. Watson, said, Nothing could have more touched and gratified me," and suggested that the proposed Chair should bear the name of the donor, and be known as The Sir George Watson's Chair of American History, Literature and Institutions." The Anglo-American Society is arranging next year to cele- brate the tercentenary of the sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers for America. The founding of the Chair of American His- tory is to be one item of the celebration programme. WATCHMAN