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...ADRIAN NELSON...
Perfect conditions of weather are necessary for the best playing of the bells, according to the present ringer, Adrian-off, formerly a Russian citizen. On summer evenings they should be heard for over 15 miles. At present the Russian finds practice necessary to recall some of the old tunes which he used to play on similar bells in Russia. Special care must be taken on cold days to warm up the metal by gentle taps, otherwise cracking might easily take place...
...character are the sweeping compositions of Jan van Goyen and Solomon and Jacob Ruisdael, the gloomy moonlight view of Aart van der Neer, the wind-swept crags of Everdingen, and the quiet seas of William van der Velde. The genre painters are well represented by the rollicking drawings of Adrian van Ostade and Jan Steen, and the somewhat more restrained compositions of Nicholas Maes and Cornelius Dusart. Painters of animals are illustrated by brilliant little sketches of Paul Potter and Gysbert Hondecoeter, while still life is present in the form of the broad powerful drawings of Jan van Huysums...
...Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand were made freemen of the City of London last week, proclaimed to be "men of good name and fame." Cried City Chamberlain Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollack, according to ancient ritual...
...belied," said Sir Adrian meaningly of Mr. Bennett, "his reputation for plain speaking and anxiety to get things done?which admirable attributes," added the Chamberlain hastily, "are the more conspicuous on account of his well-known, hereditary and passionate loyalty to the Empire...