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...German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
...James Gould Cozzens?A. & C. Boni ($2.00). Varlet and lord, playwright and swordsman, revel once more in a bold Elizabethan frolic. With wit and a rapier Michael Scarlett, young Earl of Dunbury, fought his way through stirring Elizabethan times. Marlowe, Nash, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, were his cronies. Essex and Southampton were his friends. Elizabeth's favor and her disfavor were his fortune. A fair lady was his love. And death was his portion, and Marlowe...
Last week the Cunard Liner Mauretania arrived from Southampton with a number of heavy wooden cases consigned to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan-the first shipment of the Leverhulme Art Collection. "More will arrive by every mailboat till the end of the year," said Mr. Kennerley, looking thoughtfully at the cases. "No, I don't know what's in them...
...These exercises were not, as erroneously reported in TIME last week, marked by the perennial eloquence of President Nicholas Murray Butler. His shoulder, "lamed by golf, inflamed by ocean," kept him away from the ceremony, recuperating at Southampton, L. I. TIME'S report was based upon an optimistic, seemingly reliable prediction issued at the University, and upon acquaintance with Dr. Butler's impatience with obstacles, however great, between himself and his duty...
Distinguished folk are often seen at Southampton, England, but seldom for longer than they are obliged to wrangle with British customs and baggage officials. Yet a fortnight ago some 2,000 distinguished folk entered that ancient town beside the River Itchen, and stayed there for the better part of two weeks, at the annual congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...