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HONGKONG HOTEL, Mr 3. Aitken Capt. R. Inne Mr and Mrs Ander Mr N. de Journal
beggen
Dr F. T: Keyt
It would be difficult at any time to. get hold of the Poems by Robert of the allied countries have efected Mr 7, H. Baring
Bakker Mr and Mrs. C
Capt
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Louis Stevenson, Hitherto Unpub-marvels, some of which were dealt with Mr and Mrs H.A. A G. Quidan- lished issued privately by the the exceedingly interesting Rede istare. Mrs E Hibliophile Society of Boston. U.S.A. delivered at Cambridge by Richard Dr Nevills Bradley Ar A. Linbird MARSEILLES AND LONDON, But just now, with war conditioner, Director of the Nations! Capt & Mrs Branch Mr. S. Longfield
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Marriott for copios to reach us, `; Swatches, during thou přeène grisia has rendered Mr Calderon Dr. G.
Maslin Mr H. E services of Inestimable value to the coun. MED. F. Capplamankira T.R.
Mr J. W. Mayhew as we Scots say, have of the poetis.
EL [try. In fact it is difficult to sea how we Mr J. T. Van Clove Capt, and La E E. reached us, however, and the pick could have managed to pull through with Mr J. D. Courtney, Mr
McLellan Mr Gea E. Costello
Mr H. van Maines of the, eli seems to be a ballad out the assistance thus afforded. Had thairn W. B. Mr A. Mori
M. Crawford Afr.-Morocki
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ride, Chinkum-clunk by state and, cuiri :) Weary fa their Horse-se-aira! 'Land on the causey, suft on the sand, Round they rude by the tail of the
inad.
National Physical Laboratory not been in sistence we said have had to invent
Import
McInnes
S. Nicolson
MA
Mrs. F.
E AE Nowian Davis * Cliakum-chaak in the man they ride.
it ad hoc and great as our powers of Mr D. E. Donnelly M. Pierce
Me J. G. Poat Down by the brass and the grey sea-improvisation are admitted to be the W. T. Watts. Mr G. Y. Read Mr W. A. Dowlay Mr B. H. Bay handicap would have been extremely
Mr A.de Rise Fasse Meriaus
Munitions interchangeable in MPK. M. Fetterly r
Capt. H Roop
EL. M M. Shortem every respect had to be supplied inr J. F. Gale
Me R. D. Bitteren enormous quantities from the more varied and widely separated sources, and made argely by anskilled labour. Most mani facturing engineers professed, no doubt, to work to standard gauges, cosuring the
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Round and up by the Four-Tree Deri Weary fat the red-one ment As I wrote you some time ago
Capt. A. F. Gihnour Mr A. W. R. Spier Mr F. Taylor Gause Mrs M. Slade
Mr A. G. Gordon Miss A. Square Mr F.
F. Goulbourn Mr H. A. Stringer
Mrs E Capt and
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Mr P. G. Thompson Capt. T. P. Hall Mr
Mr C. Tilsley Todt
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we here are by no means sure that interchangeability of their products, bat Mr and Mrs WA Capt. G.. Steversion meant the poems to be it on sppeared that, as in inorals, pro- publishest, and we doubt whether as fession and practice were frequently some a whole they, will add to his literary wear widely divorced. The only consola. reputation. The earlier verses are [tion is that, as we learn from the Ameri. obviously immature, as in these lines ao technical journals, masters were little
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of un amatory jingle written appar- bettie in the United States, many Erm ently to or at-somebody in Edin-there, as here, proving incapable; withwes burgh,
special instruction, of turning out work within the limits of variation denunded. No-doubt-in-womack these were fard
- My first gift, my last to you,
_delicate_this, feriefe of songs—“ The only wealth. I have, Just wi Ehey are, to yon." Stevenson was on the Continent in 1972, and he seems then to have dropped into, the bit of writing verse to his friends."
the epistle contains sour aglinirable lines,-"
Away with 'foneral music-set “ The pipe to powertal tips- The man of life's for him that drinks. And not for hin flat, sips."
**This glony northern day
Or this yet gloomier night, Das moved a something bigh
En my cold heart; and I That do not often przy Would pray to-night."-
悲
as absurdly small values considering the charseter of the work ani materials. tolerances 18 few mils only bring specified in cases where diferences of 1.200. would not have affected the imity of the product. Admittedly there were a considerable number of ench" déviations from commmm-Heur bodied in the spiseifications isstand, but, questionably,
·B-StitleT—Amount of work, had to ho dane, and done at short notice, in which but very small folerances were missible, and to attain this end on
*30 inoth
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L and Mrs II. M. Dr and Mrs D.
Cameron Macaulay "Whyte RA.M.O.
Col. Young
Back in Edinburgh,to Stevenson as to Sir Walter Scott mine own
romantic town, "
‚"---@-"find hĩm emon- | nupufacturing busis, gangaa had to be
supplied ny a stupendous wale, ing to himself,-
Sir Richard Glazebrook stuted in his lecture that sqre 400,000 gaus hud heeg
Mr Littaye tested at Tedlington during the last 38 or For some abajure reason tha country of Whitworth hisd
con to ely for sneh articles simst sxclusively en foreign sources, and when the call cuma for the manufacture to be resumed the The loved next to Scotland. He met results were at first lamentable, rejections there, athong other interesting being very numerous. Now, Sir Richard friends, two Russian ladies, "who stater, 80 per cent. pass as a matter of cpened their cultivated minds, and interry hearts to him, and his thunks Wan a perm in Scots with the
verse,
Again he is on the Continent, this time in the South of France, which
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courte, and some makers get practically all their gauges - (hrough, The rato at which these tools are now being received and examined is 10,000 a week, and a description of the methods used in the testing of this huge quantity would be of great technical interest, but presura ably nothing will be published on this head till the end of the wur. As for screw "And the first lines of a poem writ-ganges, not a few engineers were inclined
Kindly, by then they gurt me sit.“, Au blythe was to hide a bit. Light is one hame fireside lit
My life for me.
Ower early maun rise aa' quit
This happy leo."
1
"
"It's forth across the roaring foam and
on toward the west,
ten shortly after his arrival at Santo believe that the limits of accuracy Francisco run-
called for were unnecessarily, indeed meat impracticably, close, but w understand that this difficulty, has been overcome, and that at least one maker cent. through, the work being done by girl labour and the output, per employed being very high. Engineer." ing."
It's many a lonely lengus from home,
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the sheep around the fold,
To where the fags are dying beside
the Gates of Gold."
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