The Archive · 1934

Thoughts on Music

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindly love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art, Divine Musicke, besides that excellent power it hath to expel many other diseases, is soveraigne against Despair' and Melancholy, and will drive away the Divell himself The King's Sea-side Mansion The Duke of Kent is not the only member of his family who has been lately occupied in house-hunting. When the Queen paid a recent visit to Compton Place, Eastbourne (a home of the Duke of Devonshire) few thought that she was seeking a new residence for the King. But it is now understood that this was the case and that Their Majesties will pay their frst vist there early "in the New Compton Place is a large Georgian house, situated about half a mile from the sea, "in a particularly" quiet quarter of Eastbourne... Surrounded By" fine gardens and extensive grounds, it overlooks a "splendid corner of the Downs, As Eastbourne noted for its bright and. bracing climate a visit there will probably be better for the King's health, at this dim cult time of the year, than would be a stay at Sandringham, where Their. Majesties usually take up residence after Christmas.

"This will not be the Arst time that Compton Place has welcomed Royal visitors, for King Edward and Queen Alexandra stayed in the old mansion fon a number of occasions as" guests Of the Tate Duke and Duchess of De= Vonshire. Several years before her death, it was occupied by Lady Northcote.

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