November 20, 1915. 
-LAND AND , WATER. 
Tlie Ouoon, whose photograph forms the frontispiece of this 
special number of LAND^Axn .Water, has set an example 
in many different ways to the women of the Empire. 
It is perhaps not genErally known that Buckingham 
Palace was about the first great liouse in the kingdom 
where true economy was wisely instituted ; this was 
quite at the beginning of the war. It may be questioned 
whether any woman in the land has made with her own 
hands more garments for soldiers or sailors than Her 
Majesty. In the active interest the Oueen has taken 
in the "Work for Women". Fund, she has stimulated 
the excellent efforts which have been made and which 
have yielded such admirable results in the better distri- 
bution and organisation of female labour. 
An interesting birthday this week is that of the. Grand 
Duchess Olga Nicolaiovna of Russia, who was twenty 
on Monday. H.I.H., as the eldest of the t r.nr's children, 
is next in remainder to the Russian throne and Empire 
after her brother the Czarewitch. Her mother h,ad 
her brought up on English principles by English nurses, 
and when only a year old she accompanied her parents, 
first to Balmoral on a visit to Queen Victoria, and after- 
wards to Paris. 
Tlie little Princess arrived at the Paris terminus alone 
(the Emperor and Empress having alighted at Ver- 
sailles), and had a reception all to herself at the (iare 
Mont Pamasse. The representatives of the President 
and the Foreign Office, and x'arious other notabilities, 
bowed profoundly to a small person in white merino 
and a white cap and feathers, who in return bowed and 
smiled with perfect affability. 
Looking round the congregation assembled for the Memorial 
Service of Lord Roberts on Saturday, it seemed as if 
every step in the great Field-Marshal's career was worthily 
represented. That Indian Mutiny veteran and V.C. 
Sir Dighton Probyn represented Queen Alexandra, he 
was only Lord Roberts' junior by one year ; Colonel Sir 
John Dunne, who was present, is but two years younger. 
There were also men who had fought with Roberts in 
Kabul and Kandahar, as well as in Burmah and South 
Africa, and others who had worked with him in Madras, 
Bengal and the Punjaub, as well as at home in later 
years. It was a marvellous gathering of servants of the 
Empire, many of them though wearing ribbons and 
decorations hardly known to the public. 
The service was deeply impressive, and one left St. Margaret's, 
thankful that such sons were still bom to Britain. The 
Pilgrims' Club, I notice -sent a wreath to the grave in 
the crypt of St. Paul's, which bore the inscription : "To 
the memory of a great soldier and a great gentleman" 
Surely the word "gentleman," used in this sense, has no 
degrees ; Lord Roberts was a gentlerhan — a gallant 
gentleman or a simple gentleman if you will — but neither 
great, medium-sized, nor small. To use such an epithet 
in such a connection points to the fact that the writer was 
ignorant of the true inwardness of gentlehood. 
Very fair support, especially from lady exhibitors, continues 
to be given to what dog • shows are- being • held. The 
strength of the Duchess of Newcastle's kennel is being 
well maintained. Her rough-coated fox:terriers have 
been going strong of late. Borzois and . fox-terriers, of 
coiu-se, are the breeds with, which, some of her greatest 
successes have been scored, but they are by no means the 
only ones. Hunting folk will recollect how. strong an 
interest the Duchess of Nc^'castlc took in the .building- 
up of her Clumber pack of harriers. 
Tlie Duke of Manchester, who is atpresent (not for the first 
time) in the pubUc eye, has a son and heir, who was 
thirteen last month, and in whose veins nms the blood of 
many races. While descending paternally from the 
great Xorman house of Montagu, his mother. is a Ger- 
man-American, his grandmother a Spanish Cuban,- and 
his late great-grandmother a noble Hanoverian. " 
Lady Lo\'at, who has been cheered by news of her husband's \ 
complete reco\-ery from the illness which for a time in- ' 
valided him ■ in Malta, has arrived at 38, Grosvenor j 
Gardens, and will be in London for some little time. , 
During her recent stay at Beaufort Castle Lady Lovat, 
•who is indefatigable in her labours on behalf of the Lovat 
Scouts, now at the Eastern Front, opened a very success- 
ful sale of work for this object at Beauly, and made .one' 
• of the telHng and touching little speeches for which, she' 
has a special gift. '^ 
With the Trollopes, as with many other old famihes, less store 
is set on a peerage than on more ancient dignities and 
honours. If ever the House of Lords were abolished and 
all peers became simple gentlemen, it would not be the 
older titles who would worry, for with them, at worst, it 
would only be reversion to type. The barony of Kesteven, , 
which, by the way, is a division of Lincolnshire, a sort of • 
county within a county, was conferred in 1868 on, Sir 
John TroUope, the seventh to hold the baronetcy conferred 
by Charles I. on Thomas Trollope of Casewick-. Tliis 
baronetcy now passes to a nephew of the first Lord 
Kesteven, the eldest surviving son of the late General Sir 
Charles Trollope, K.C.B., Colonel of the 53rd Foot.. The 
Trollopes have Plantaganet blood in their veins. 
Bright sunshine poured into the rich but rather sombre in- 
terior of the Oratory last Wednesday during the wedding 
of Viscount Campden and Miss Alice Eyre. It lit up very 
effectively the gilded marble and the high altar (adornecl 
with towering bouquets of white lilies and chrysanthe- 
mums), the geranium-pink of the Cardinal's cappa, the 
subdued black silk and white lace of the Scottish Abbot 
who " assisted " in the Sanctuary, and above all the 
creamy white, shot with silver and bordered with orange- 
flowers, of the pretty bride's long train, borne by a 
. picturesqufe child in vivid turquoise-blue. Altogether 
a feast of delicate colouring ; and there was a feast for 
the ears as well, for a boy of the famous choir rendered 
Gounod's " Ave Maria " with a fresh loveliness that 
made it seem almost unhackneyed, and the not less 
familiar " Sanctus " from the Messe Solcnnelle was given 
with astonishing effect. 
It was a khaki wedding, of course, for Lord Campden and 
his brother and best man were both in uniform. But 
there was more state and ceremony about it than one has 
been accustomed to in war weddings. And the reception 
afterwards in Belgrave Place was like old times — crowds 
of smiling friends, unnumbered presents laid out and 
admired, and th? bride-cake cut with proper formality. 
Altogether, a wedding on the good old lines, and a cheerful 
function which did everybody good. 
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Eyre, with the bridesmaids and 
other friends, went to tea at Runipelmayer's, thus 
bringing a pleasant day to a close. Talking of Rumpel- 
mayer's, his place in St. James's Street is becoming quite 
a favourite for lunche»n. Certainly nothing could be 
nicer ; every day there are little parties there. One 
is sorry to hear that Rumpelmayer will have none of his 
delightful miniature Christmas trees this winter ; he 
cannot get them, but if anyone has kept theirs of 
last Christmas, he will be Very pleased to refurbish it. 
It is now definitely fixed that the wedding of Miss Asquith 
and Mr. Bonham-Carter is to take place at St. Margaret's, 
Westminster, on Tuesday, the 30th. Has Miss Asquith 
chosen St. Andrew's Day as a delicate compliment to her 
father's Scot constituents ? 
Hunting people have naturally been particularly interested • 
in the recently-announced engagement of Mr. W. M. Cliff 
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