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...India and so forth, has finally taken a good look at himself as others see him and is evidently ill pleased at the spectacle. The royal portrait by Charles Simms, R.A., which was recently exhibited in New York has been withdrawn from the Royal Academy by official request from Buckingham Palace...
Came two grave silk-hatted mummers who marched with thoroughgoing dignity. Impersonating not only the Prince but the entire Royal Family, they quitted the station and seated themselves in two wagons representing the imperial landaus. Ceremoniously they were driven to Buckingham Palace by exactly the same route which the royal party was to follow next...
Came the two royal landaus and Edward of Wales was whirled off through a drizzly rain and an ovation unprecedented even for him. On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness...
Stepping aboard his cruiser, The Repulse, the Prince received official farewells from President de Alvear. As lie steamed toward Buckingham-on-Thames, rumors again circulated. This time the story went that London awaits him as "The World's Greatest Commercial Traveler," expects him to tell British business men how to capture South American markets...
...series of five public lectures on astronomical subjects will be given this fall at the College Observatory, it has been announced. The Observatory, with entrances on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and on Garden Street opposite Linnaean Street, will be open, the announcement states, on the dates of the lectures from 7.30 in the evening until 9 o'clock. A short non-technical talk will be preceded, when the weather permits, by telescope observation of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff...