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SATURDAY, June 18, 1820; Commenting at 11 am. Shair Bales Rooms, Duddell Street, A Large Quantity of Wines
and Spirits.
Comprisin→→
30 as Australian Hock
$ do Claret "Medoc.
20 do Champagne Duc de
Monaco
Co do Champagne "Charles
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5. do Bargandy.
90 do Sherty (various brand),
90 do Dry and Old Tom Gis,
14 doOorkam Gin, .'
Etc., Etc..
Fi
NBA large quantity of the above
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T:-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
WESSRS. LAMMERT BROS. are
instructed to sell
The Steamship
"JEHANGIR"
ow ying in the Harbour of Hongkong, under an
Order of the Court.
ΕΙ
PUBLIC AUCTION
MONDAY,
the 28th day of June, 1920, at
3 o'clock P.M.
IN ONE LOT
At their Auction Rooms, iz Duddell
Strect
The ship is a British ship registered at Hongkong el 5200 tons Gross and of $360.71 Registered tonnage and was Built by W Denay and Brothers, Dumbarton.
For particulars to view apply to Hours. Lammert Bros, the Auctioneers.
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[By St. John Krvice:]
THIS IS HOLY GROUND.
Stratford-on-Avon well remembered Shakespeare's birthday, and standing by his grave in Stratford Church Mr. Davis, the American Ambassador, paid this fine tribute to his great. ness
ever
this
him
is have long since become the common such treasure of mankind,
"One who speaks here, then, should be-content when he has enrolled him- self with all humility among the throng of worshippers, but--for America I ask the right to say that she
comes not 35
2 stranger
self provided with food and lodging. If they had their way with our authors they would very narrowly limit the scope of literature, and. when we asked for works of art they would offer us books of technical instruction. Many months ago there was an account in the Manchester Guardian They have fallen into the error of which the the Puritan who imagines that man conversation of a
"This is holy ground. The sacred writer of it had with some Canadian is desirable when he conforms to the soldiers on the subject of English common standard, the truth being
bas
for sanctified literature. The soldiers said that that man is desirable only when he dust here mingled with the soil The blaze of undying certain classical authors, "particularly differs from the common standard.
Had the complaint against Dickens enclosure. Dickens and Thackeray," ought to be scrapped because they wrote only been that he followed too closely in genfas illuminates this spot and all of heroes who can't earn their own the footsteps of Samuel Richardson, around it with all" of immortality livelihood-and-spend nearly all their making his heroes too noble to be things mortal can attain. To this time hanging after some old woman tolerable and his villains too wicked shrine to-day, as on yesterday and to get her money." They added to to be credible, there would have been to-morrow, the feet of countless this condemnation of English authors reason in it. The problem which pilgrims press with, reverential zeal. in general-and of most authors of puzzled Hamlet, of how a man could Three centuries have spent thern- smile and smile and be a villain," selves in praise of Shakespeare:
three times
generations whatever nationality-a particular
have turned to condemnation of Thackeray on the offered no difficulties to Dickens. To three ground that "there are only two his way of thinking a man could not of men
who have "smile and smile and be a villain"; for inspiration. The works set for Elizabethan England heroes in his books
he could only scowl and scowl down
That some sort of a job."
а villati. This curious criticism of English and be terature by Canadian soldiers came why Nicholas Nickleby is back to my mind lately when I was a tiresome hero and Mr. Squeers travelling from Cincinnati to Toronto. is such a preposterous ruffian. It is I had change trains at Detroit, hard to believe that Nickleby was and in order to pass the time of always uttering exalted sentiments waiting between the arrival of the at great length; it is still harder to the believe that Mr. Squeers never once trains from Cincinnati and departure of the train for Torento kindly patted the bead of a pupil at to pay tribute to the poet of a for- I bought a popular American Dotheboys Hall. We know, most of eign land or of an alien tongue. Her magazine and read it. I was impressus, that Nature has so mixed up the mide in Shakespeare is no less thani ed by the fact that the hero of each elements in man that the villait of England's nor held by any lesser of the stories, oddly similar in form one moment is the hero of the next, right. It is not merely because she and theme, was a business man so and the pioneer of to-day is the reac speaks his language, and needs no work tionary of to-morrow, but Dickens will interpreter to make her feel the thril closely engrossed in his
the have none of this pandering to Nature; of his majestic music, that neither that he had no time for
but his villains must be very villainous, time, nor chance, nor change can consideration of anything
of his employ and his heroes must be pedantically rob ber of her share in his legacy to the problemis
"Canada, Australia, Newfound- ment. The villain, when there was a noble; and so, though an ex- men of English speech. villain, was addicted to aesthetic cess of villainy is pursuits. While the hero studied taining than an excess of virtue, land, New Zealand, South Africa, statistics and trade returns, the villain there is a danger that Dickens's and the islands of the sea may come wasted his mental energies on art refusal to acknowledge Nature even under their common flag to claim a Part of the design against the hero in his villains will cause the downfall part in the inheritance, but America, consisted of an effort to lure him of his work. She's a rum 'un, though she bears a standard of her Big Natur" said Mr. Squeers, and if own, does not forget that, in the from the consideration of Business to the consideration of Dickens bad only paid attentive heed days when Shakespeare lived and Culture. The more despicable of the to his own schoolmaster we should sang, she herself lay hidden in the villains lived in Greenwich Village, not now be lamenting the disrelish womb of the same great and fertile She comes here as a daughter in the which is the Chelsea of New York, with which so many young people Motherland that gave him birth. or were frequently to be seen in the regard his books. burlieüs of Washington Square holding The judgment of the world is house to assert her right of converse of a subversive character against the Canadian soldiers, and it patrimony. with painters and poets and other is against America. Work is not the Surely the ceremonies of to-day -varieties of artistic" people. The chief end of ruan, nor is he of inter- are not without this deep signifi heroine, if she were frail, attended at est only or principally because of his cance; they mark that essential unity lectures by novelists, sometimes of for occupation. There is a fimited in among the English-speaking peoples eign origin, în women's clubs, and was terest to be derived from reading of of which the name and fame of only rescued in the nick of time from the way in which man can take Shakespeare is shibboleth and sign her evil associates by the hero per iron and beat it into shoes for horses in the blood-stained drama of a suading her, just as she was about to and wheels for carts, but there is frightful war. Thisunity has played, give herself to the villainous esthete, limitable interest to be derived but yesterday, a part greater than account of the way any that Shakespeare ever dreamed. to take an interest in Big Business. from an The heuer type of heroine never for in which he wooed and loved and In the providence of God it will cre moment felt any artistic impulse hated and fought and died, and supply, in coming years, an epic of whatever; her whole mind was bent that interest is no less in extent when Deaceful glory which no genius less the man happens to be a tramp in-lofty than his own will be worthy to on Big Business!.
stead of the president of a railroad portray.”
By the time my train left Detroit
more enter
I had discovered the cause of the The complaint made by the material Canadian soldiers' complaint against ists who called themselves Puritans English literature: they were confus was that art was not definitely useful ing moral indignation with literary in the sense in which a steam engine appreciation, and were giving their is useful, and something of that com support to a pernicious; heresy, very plaint must-have been in the mind prevalent in America, that ile most of the Canadian soldiers when they interesting thing about a man is failed against heroes who had not the job-by which he keeps him got some sort of a job."
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