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visited the B.G. Court, took the names of a lot of our 
polished specimens, and volunteered the opinion that 
he had never seen woods anywhere so suitable for 
railway car internal furaishings. 
There are a host of recolle€&tions which crowd in on ~ 
the mind as one writes—visions of how vastly delighted 
colonists with antiquarian taste such as the Hon. N. D. 
Davis and Librarian RODWAY would have been to have 
wandered leisurely through the model “ Convent of La 
Rabida” exploring its wealth of Columbian treasures in 
the shape of portraits, maps and charts, and curios from 
the Caribbean—of how interested go-ahead members of 
our Children’s Proteétion Society would have been 
to have seen the great model Créche, Gymnasium, 
and Kindergarten School which comprised the Children’s 
Building in the White City—of the strangely effusive 
“ loyalty” displayed by a republican city and community 
towards a daughter of the Royal house of Spain and her 
husband—the ‘‘Infanta and Infante” as they were 
described on the invitation cards for a concert given 
in Festival Hall in honour of the Princess EULALIA— 
of the intense pleasure it afforded every Britisher and 
British Colonial to listen at that concert to the magnifi- 
cent singing of England’s great tenor, Mr. EDWARD 
LLoyp, whose “ Cujus Animam” was a treat long to be 
remembered—of the strange “ World’s Fair language” 
which came into vogue, so that you heard one man invite 
his friend to “ just drop down to Australia for a minute, 
then we'll go in at Spain and see so and so, taking 
in France, Sweden, and Ceylon on our return—they’re 
all in a cluster you know!”-—but I feel that I must 
stop here as Mr. Ropway tells me that space is 
