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THE CHINA MAIL.
́LITERARY CRITICISM.
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR SIMPSON.
AN INFORMATIVE ADDRESS.
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PROGRESS IN HAINAN.
A ROADMAKING SCHEME.
little Hainan.
TURSDAY MARCH 18 1988
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
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A SOLDIER'S DUTY
KING'S PRIVATE FINEL
LECTURED BY MAGISTRATE
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The Indians, however, are also sending 11 rival delegation
FOUNDER'S DAY |to England and they have, further
FESTIVITIES. more, promises of strong support From India. Advices from Delti
MAGISTRATE STARTS THE 100.. `
ASSOCIATION DINNER SPEECHES, report that the non-official members
Appearing on remand befor of the Legislative Council are
KIUNGCHOW, HAINAN, March 8. Celebrations in connection with Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones of charge anxious to press the claims of the
"Literary Criticism" was the -Hainan has only one treaty-port- the twentieth year of the College of (1) assault and (2) larceny Kenya. Indians by despatching a title of an exceedingly interesting
Horse" brand delegation to London in May, and informative lecture which Pro Hoihow. With its 50,000 popula- were held by the St. Stepher's
Day, last Saturday. At tennis the Regiment was convicted this, when the Kenya deputations will fessor. R. K. Simpon, lecturer in tion, it is the largest and busiest College Association on Founder's Albert Pickken garettes, Private English at the Hongkong Uni-mart id Hainan. But the second present students beat the Old Boys, morning and fined $25 on the first arrive. Moreover, the Aga Khan versity, delivered to a large
at the Helena May largest is Kachek in the cast cen whilst at football after a very charge and $15 on the other.
Pickken stated that at about 8.30 has telegraphed Lord Reading audience
the Institute yesterday afternoon, tral part of the island. Not only strenuous game the Old Boys won
by the only goal scored. After the p.m. on Saturday, he entered com- calling his attention to
Instruction in literary criticism does it supply, a busy and prosperous games a large, party assembled at plainant's shop where he asked the extreme gravity of the situat
pressure has Professor Simpson said, aimed at district, but its people are noted as tea when presentations were made price of some clgarettes. He was lon, and great
told ten cents and offered six teaching people how to criticise the most progressivo in back-woodsy to the players. been put on the Government of literature and began by asking
This was followed by the Annual which complainant accopted. He General Meeting and election of then put twelve cents on the coun-. India to insist on the principle of what was the critic. Professor
Simpson then made' a comparison A little over a year ago, a rich officers, a record number of votes ter, took two packets of cigarettes equality in Kenya. Thus with the between a judge and a critic, point-man Wong Tai Fong, was made being registered. At 8 pm, the and turned away. Four men in Kenya settlers ready to take ing out that while the judge had a magistrate in Ui Hong district of Annual Dinner took place in the the shop followed him asking for matters into their own hands and body of law the critic had none. which Kachuk in a jart. This man Lai Kwai Pul Hall of the College, money and complainant snatched back. Ho the clamour in India for equality Thus, if a judge were asked to does not have the ordinary district which was very tastefully decorated the cigarettes
out to complainant growing ever greater, the Hoine judge of conduct he could compare magistrate's point of view. Strange for the occasion, The chair was pointed
the deed with the law; if it was to say, the phrase,For the peo-taken by Mr. Li Hoi Tung, others the man who had already received Government is faced with a profound in conformity with such it ple's good has some meaning to at the high table being, Sir William payment and complainant handed. blem, a very awkward problem in- was good; if not, it was bad. But, him. The first project he set about Brunyate K.C.M.G., the Rt. Rev. the back the cigarretes. Another man deed. Upon the decision hangs with the critic of literature even the was road-building. At first no-one Bishop of Victoria, Mr. Chau Siu came up at this stage, and after laws of grammar could hardly be stirred much to work on roads even Ki, Colonel Davy RE, Mr. S. W saying something dealt him a back- the fate of this richly fertile regarded as laws of literature. In though the magistrate did outder it. Tso, Rev. A. D. Stewart, Dr. H. Ghander on the jaw and a general region, whether it shall support this connection Mr. Simpson in But this magistrate was different. Earle, Rev. H. Copley Moyle, Prufs fight started.
Private Alexander Wright gave millions of white settlers, and stanced writers such as Carlisle, First, to get things started, he and W. Brown, Mr. Lai Kwai Fui, Prof. supply the cotton we now import Browning and Mr. A. S. M. his staff, themselves, got out and Lai Chai Hie and Rev. E. W. corroborative evidence as to the from America, or whether it shall Hutchison, who delighted in break did three days bani labour on the Martin, Acting Warden. About money being paid and told how
ing grammatical rules. The happy become the home. for India's surages when the critic's function was road, to set an example, Next be/seventy members and friends the fight started,
His Worship, convicting defen- At the conclusion toasts were dant on both charges remarked that too, depends the whole question of In an age like the present, when it triet school to do three days work proposed by the Chairman to H. M. was the defendant's duty to have plus millions. Upon the decision, the function of the judge were past. called on the stunts of the dis-attended the dinner,
was the spirit of the times to free and they, all responded. Next the King and to the Republic of found out who was the responsible Ltd migration within the Empire.
challenge all laws, it was certain it was the turn of the hai poloi. All China. The health of the College owner of the cigarettes and to have that laws of literature would be those who lived within a certain was proposed by Dr. Y. S.. Wan paid the money to him. If he scoffed at.
distance of either side of the mad who indulged in many interesting neglected his duty and handed the When the judge of literature had were called an for their three days reminiscences and spoke in praise money to the wrong person then he had his say there was always the quote. Then in order that the work of the continuance of the good would be responsible for any appeal to the reading public might continue, the magistrate spirit of the College. The Acting trouble that might ensue. Dafen- The judgment of the reading paid them for work atsthe rate of Warden, in replying, spoke of the dant was a soldier here and public was in literature the only 150 cash and about the same value influence of the College in starting his duty was to preserve final judgment; and as the average of shares in the road project, per the Macao English College, the the King's peace. In breaking reader was not much interested in day. Of course, just now these Samarang (Java) Anglo-Chinese the King's peace he was com comparing things with law the shares represent rather uncertaio College, the St. Stephen's Girls' mitting a greater offence than Colonel John Ward M. P. was average reader had usually dis values. But, by this time inertia College and St. John's Hall at the would have been committed by a seriously ill last month, but when agreed with the judicial critics had been, overcome and the work Unversity. He also mentioned that Chinese coolic. The Chinese were the last mail left Home his What was the use of giving a continued.
the Chinese Recreation Club. was not oppressed and, as a rule, they condition
showing
did not submit to force. It was some judgment with which nobody Up to the present about twenty-founded from St. Stephen's.
agreed? Criticism by law had five miles of the main high-way Guests. Speaking as one who had white race in China to set an Mr. S. W. Tso proposed "the defendant's duty as a member of a Kimprovement.
fallen into disrepute because it had between, Kachek and Hoihow bave bega closely associated with the example and not a bad one by been found that the judgment of Colonel Young, C.B.E., 15- succeeding generations had differ been graded. The grade in most College from its earliest days, he brawling. But perhaps as a new sistant General Manager of the ad from judgments of the critic by placca is not steep and the engineer ventured to hope that all possible comer, he might not have under Kailan Mining Administration, is law. To bring out his point the inf. Work seems to bad is only of assistance would be given to the stood this. going on Home leave on Thursday lecturer referred to the history of fair quality. The road is only an College in its plans to widea its and expects to return to Tientsia the drama and the early laws laid earth road of course and the crest scope and to continue to offer a in September or October."
down between the Renaissance and of the road has not been raised high the second half of the seventeenth enough yet. Ditches parallel the
Sir William Brunyate replied. century respecting the three unities, road on both sides and it places this
How He said that he was beginning to He pointed out that Shakespeare work has been well done. continually broke all three rules, over the road is crude compared regard St. Stephen's College as the and yet his plays could not be with what a real road ought to be. foster-mother of the University.
For a succession of thrills and a regarded at any time as poor plays, Yet, to anyone who knows what He paid a tribute to the Warden, but always, as the greatest of all conditions were, and what inertia Rev. W. H. Hewitt, for his work taste of the uncanny, theatre goers plays. He gave as further ex- has been overcome, it is evident in relation to the University and who wanted an awe-inspiring ex- perience could not have done' supported very cordially amples of men who had trans that a fine start has been made... grossed fixed laws in literature,-
The progressive movement shows scheme for removing the College better than visit the Theatre Royal A board blown down by the Dryden, Pope, etc. How then was itself in other ways too. In the to the other said of the Island last night to see the Courtneidge · The Bat," an wind from a house in Des Voeux the aspiring critic to judge? There Ui Hong district cits, two nice. He had, he said, seen the Anglo- Holloway Company in their clever Road Central yesterday, struck were no two small Chinese boys with such As
laws or set standard.parka-have-been-land-out-and-a-city Chinese College at Samarang, and presentation of an alternative
market for the sale of mest and thought it an excellent institution. American mystery play. There was a fairly big audience which force that they had to be removed the aspiring critic revegetables built. The long street He looked upon St. Stephen's as included H.E. The Governor. The story of "The Bat" is such to the Government Civil Hospital commended wide reading as a through the city has been paved particularly valuable to the Univer sity, and concluded with an where injuries to their heads were means of establishing an ideal with brick and new buildings added expression of entire satisfaction a convulsion of lightning dramatic.
standard; and comparison as a method of judgment. But even to the district school. In Kachek with the many Old Boys who had incidents that one's surmises and expectations suddenly melt away Two motor-accidents occurred this did not carry him very far. It itself, the streets have been nicely proceeded to the University.
and one is thrown deeper into the with us. What are we then?. Are during the week end. On Sunday failed him whenever he was con- Paved, three large markets opened,
depths of mystery as the plot unfolds itself. From the start one we night motor-car No. 610 knocked fronted with anything new. It not and some modern stores built.
The magistrate of this local die-
is-led to expect an almost certain strangers?" The question is down a man in Des Voeux Road only failed him but might mislead
ending but in the last moments of not idle, for he can
point causing slight injuries to his right him because, the new thing, trict, of which Kiungchow is the
The Bat" there is a wonderful sur- leg. A small Chinese boy playing failing to represent what he had out, is also a man of the new school the fact
that white
prising climax. The play opens out in Des Voeux Central on Saturday read before, was thereby con- and very favourable to modern
in Miss Van Gorder's home on Long aliens of the most doubtful origin collided with motor-cycle No. 293 demned. All great literature was ideas.
Island and there commences an and of more than doubtful loyalty standing in the side-channel in its time new literature, and for. He has laid out a city park,
The new commander of the Sub-exciting search of the mysterious to Great Britain are given full The cycle overbalanced and broke that reason alone was often con- built a dormitory for the Sixth Pro-
demned by the critics.
vincial Norman School, started marine (Fourth) Flotilla on the criminal known as the Bat. Her freedom to trade and live where the boy's left leg.-
Professor Simpson proceeded to ma-la. in the direction of Vun Bio China Station is one of the most home becomes the scene of weird they like once they have entered
pointout that Ihsea was the greatest City, opened a city market, etc.
experienced officers in submarine noises, two murders, the haunt of A very unpleasant experience, dramatist of the ninteenth century the country, whereas the Indian is attended by serious consequences, chiefly because he did not write during period when robbing has work in a Home paper, Captain whole series of sensational shocks. All these things have been done work in the British Navy, says a strange ghost-like shadows and a debarred by his colour from carry-befel Mr. A. Simpson, of the United like the dramatists of the seven been unprecedented, most, officials Charles G. Brodie, who relieves The Bat" is, to say the least, n ing on business in certain parts Engineers of Singapore as a result teenth century. Hugh Walpole corrupt, and gambling and other Captain Charles S. Benning, D.S.O., very successful stage effort and if of Nairobi. Nor can he own a of the extreme foolishness of a was a great novelistaat simply be immorality rampant. Perhaps in the command of the depot ship the remainder of the company's
Chinese coolic. Accompanied by cause his novels were compounded farm in the Highlands--the most his wife and child, Mr. Simpson of the same mixture of character. China can do some things for her-"Titania" (Hongkong) and the plays are anywhere as good, they
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The Rev. C. E. Darwent has received news of the death of his mother, at the advanced age of 86. The deceased lady was the wife of the Rev. W. Darwent, whose New Year hymns are well known on the China coast.
attended to.
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know little enough fertile and desirable part of Kenya was returning home in his car narrative, conversation and general nd perhaps care Colony. Without answering these when a coolie flung a large bunch description or reflection as practis
e Colony's politi-arguments directly, the white of lighted fireworks into the cared by his predecessors, but be-
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public school education to the sons THEATRE of Chinese gentlemen.
CHINA SQUADRON.'
NEW SUBMARINE' COMMANDER.
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ROYAL.
A NIGHT OF THRILLS.
Flotilia, has served in the Navy should be assured of big patronage since January, 1900, and in his here.
The characterisation of the part lieutenancy days he specialised in submarine work with great of Miss Cornelia Van: Gorder
about
audience at
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first
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e now told, are settler can adduce others in his about the ankles before he could thing new-an innerrealism. Shaw finally, how criticism had found credit. He was promoted lieu- could not have been in more he very touch-own favour equally strong. fling the crackers out, sustaining was a great dramatist not simply its true sphere, not in spéculating tenant in 1904, commander in capable hands than
Kenya faces The Indian of the lower severe hand burns in the process. because he made use of the Theatre as to what was the trae nature 1916, and reached his. present Miss Florence, le Clercq. As is one of the class has
to learn The effects of his experience were as a means of preaching, but be- of literature but in trying to direct rank In June of last year. When Anderson, the detective, Mr. Empire has before he reaches the level of the such that he had to be removed to cause his instraction was delivered people's attention, to the actual the Great War opened, he was in George Zucco was never wanting
Hospital.
in a different way. What was new productions of literature; hot in command of the Gibraltar Sub and he infused a considerable to issue is poorest white. Consequently,
controlling and fudging authors marine Flotilla, and rendered ex-amout of life into the play. It is in literature, if judged by compare but in interpreting them. This cellent work in that capacity till well that a story like that of "The a white though his wealth may enable him Miss Marie Hodgkinson, of ison with the old, would always be was the general function of the 1916, when he was promoted com- Bat? should contain humorous tion, datt to live among the whites, his sani-Melbourne, Australia, was married condemned, but all that was good best critics throughout the last mander for his work in the Dar- situations and very often the Grand
Holy Trinity Cathedral in literature was in its day new: ny's firstary ideas may be appalling. The t
hundred years. The most modern danelles. After his promotion he Guignol strain of the play was re- in the presence of Mr. S. H.
Dealing with taste, the lecturer development of literary criticism assunted command of the Aus-lieved fittingly by the comical On Journalist already-quoted, while Tolles, U.S. Vice-Consul, the Very said, that it was the capacity for might be described as psychologi-tralian Submarine Flotila, and mannerisms of Lizzie, a ho have not crediting a tenth part of the Rev. Dean Symons officiating, to being strongly affected either cul criticism. Thus there was for was at its head: during the re-which was worthily sustained be ion are stories he heard of the Indian's-be- Mr. J. Hamilton Brown, of New adversely or favourably by what the critic an increased necessity mainder of the war. This was Miss Dorty seth Dr. Wells, r manding complete equality of haviour towards the native, states Away, by Capt. R. C. Olson, and one experienced; but a taste oven to study the biographies and cor- not the only risk in submarine mast cleverly played by Mr. Claud naller that for one reason or another, the, Mr. Louis Henkel acted as best as tus rare not only with role, not the author, the artist, not command of the ill-fated Cr Allister who was clever enough
away G. in this simple sense was a rare respondence of the authors. The work ke had experienced. He was part white population are deterned native considers the Indian his man. Mr. Brown is the treasurer reference to literature, but with rethe ruan, was a slogan of the past! when she was sunk in 1909. On that to maintain the suspicion which
enemy. Consequently, it is claim- of the Brown-Duffy Goatskin ference to life in general. Klow uttered by thate who wanted to occasion, he saved the life of his the their present
Mr. him. Mr. Leycester supremacy, Tha Indians 1 ave ed that even if, by some miracle, Corporation of New York, and has could the average human, being believe that the two were separate, second in command, Lieutenant Monck did justice to his part
been in Shanghai for the past year who was nota sulficiently conscious but today the idea which tended Watkins, and was awarded “the strong claims and a reputable the Kenya white men did agree to Mr. and Mrs. Brown will sail for creature to have strong, feelings to prevail was that the proper en-R.H.S medal for his bravery. of Billie, the Butler, and he copied, British Journalist who visited settle down under indian rule, the the United States on the str. Pre about reality be expected to have joyment of literature was best When he got his promotion last the Japanese servant romaricende
a taste for literature? Most people secured by knowing the man and June, Captain Brodie was in com well. Miss Enid Revill Kenya recencily records. that warlike blacks would soon enough (sident Lincoln."
exact cut the throats of their brown over!
could read:any sort of book. They the circumstances, and considering mand of the Mr attached to the was a distinct success as Miso Dale they are determined to
In a series of amendments to felt no difference between Trea- the work as an expression thereof. Atlantic Fleet Captain Brodie is Ogden and her innocently ac cused lover, Brooks, was a charac their rights by every conceivable lords."
While Mr. Winston Churchill the official Admiralty Book of sure Island" and "Coral Island," How often was one disappointed a Scat by descent.
Commander. V. E. Ward will ter successfully portrayed by Mr. means short of taking up arms.
Flags, it is announced that surveyor Tom Brown's Schooldays" in going to see for a second time ruled the Colonial Office the whites ing vessels of the Chinese Goven and its innumerable Imitators, a play which impressed us greatly take over the command of the Walter Hudd were secum, but now he has ment will in future fly a flag the between the plays of Shakespeare on the first visit, or in re-reading a stoop Magnolia on the China Mr RL Macdonald, Mr. Morgan made full use of the small gone the Indians have sue same as the jack, but having in the and the plays of his contemporaries, book which one had once enjoyed. Station at an early date, with effect Robertson Braine and Mr. Fred ceeded in getting the Colonial centre on the yellow, blue, and After referring to the difficulty This was a sign that the first from January 27.
white stripes an anchorsuperimpos-of advising the student and point-taste was mistaken; but when re- Lieutenant Commander J.-B.parts which they were called upon Office to make suggestions strong ed on a white globe with blacking out that no teacher could give peated urlals confirmed the first Spurgin has been appointed to the ly distasteful to the whites. But poles. The flag of the State of him full satisfactory Instractions Impression, then we knew that the river gunboat "Waterhen," China less than the meanest, white, the matter does not end here. The Kelantan, Malay States, is a red how to criticise, the lecturer re book was good. What we had Station, from February 2. #If I am not a British subject, then whites will concede nothing. The rectangular flag, having in the commended a study of the great read once and enjoyed we had the
centre in white a crescent and star critics of the past This, he said right to express our enjoyment of East Medicine Make:
A good manny bample batz governor and a deputation from the two krisses, and two spears. The showed how criticism began by and a duty to try and find reasons A better medicine can ant la mais what am I?" he asked. And then added: "You appealed 10 our settlers are proceeding to London standard of the Sultan of this speculating abstractly on the for our enjoyment. What we had than Chamberlain's Cough Body sanos be onred wont taklar zamenus bakke restoring thx system to a healthy cocured far more rheumatism than any loyalty to the British Crown in the
haying in the centre in gold a how it proceeded to give directions right to call good. 1.
alda impestoration and assists Natdra ia mimaged thoroughly into the skin au
Indeed, Mr. Jerantee, a millionaire
Indian, as well known in London
as Nairobi, told him that the
majority of his fellow-countrymen preferred death to dishonour
the dishonour of being considered
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The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,”
Tonight the company will stage
our money and we gave them erament, and should they fail it 33 crescent and star surmounted by alto authors, but found that authors The lecturer was warmly. ART WAL, Besides, is contains no opiates | Internal remedy:fa; exin on a sad gavest; war; you asked, for our lives and to lay their views before the Gow State is a white 'rectangular fing, nature and functions of literature, enjoyed many times we had them loves the lungs, opens the soortig'de," || thedicine." "Ohumberlain's“. Pain - Bai inar and now you say: You only hated, Kenya's a harda inorn and surrounded by a wreath we would not be directed and, clusion of the lecture, the col Bristol, and Storekce pups and Storskaper or sale by all pesuite are not good enough to associate take matters life their own hands. blus.
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