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St. Sebastian's Church, situated in the centre of Mayfair, is justly famous for the beauty of its structure, the excellence of its singing, the splendour of its vestments and the magnificence of its vicar, Mr. Sandow, who might well be taken, as far as superb physical proportions go, to be the show-pupil of his hardly less illustrious namesake. He is ‘Hon. ' and ‘Rev.,' but he prefers his letters to be addressed to him as ‘The Rev. the Hon. J. S. Sandow' instead of ‘The Hon. the Rev.,' for, as he says, the ‘Hon. ' is an accident -- not, of course, implying that there was any irregularity about his birth -- and that ‘the Rev. ' is the more purposeful of his prefixes. To do him justice, he lives up to this fine pronouncement, and while, if his brother, Lord Shetland, lunches with him he is regaled with the simplest of family meals, he entertains an athletic Bishop who is a friend of his with the sumptuousness due from a Rev.
to a Prince of the Church, and takes him down in a motor to Queen's Club, where they have a delightful game of racquets together.