SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1928
BOOKS
CHINESE LITERATURE.
PROSE AND VERSE.
SPLENDID PRODUCTION,
cover
period extending from 55th B.C. to A.D. 1650, Short biographical cand dynastic notices will be found scattered through the volumes in their proper places whilst Foot notes adorn and, make axe plain some of the glorious chritation. passages which call for a "clearer In passages which
to N.
THE CHINA MAIL.
On."
"'Clubs," "How To Get Here is Liu Tse-Hsü "who appear. N ed for a titue in Mme. Tussaud's collection of celebrities" and who brongght on war with Great Britain, represented by "A Letter to Queen Victoria." It is but one of many good things. Look at the "Mis cellaneous" chapter. Read and consider the following —
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Three men's strength cannot prevail against Truth,"
Trees grow, not alike,
... as if defying the homes, the By the mound and the mont: people, and the soul of the island, Birds sing in the forest
hoxiile to his race through the With varying note;
| fanaticul hatred Of the fish in the river
of centurion," 8, Valls was against Jaime's Some dive and sonic float; marriage to his nicco. For his The mountains rise ligh
friend was then too much in the And the waters sink low, grip of the pasi to take so bold a But the why and the
|plings into the future. Wherefore we never an know. There is ons other thing to be noted, certain peasant, Pep, of Can Among his tenants there waH A and it is a pleasure to make refer Mallorqui, who hed fence to what will be obvious to daughter named Margalida.
A pretty She those fortunate enough to possess was courted by any young men of "If you bow at all, bow low. these books, They are exniples of the inlad at last, not through "Ainun thinks he knows, but the perfection of the printer's art. the hurried trick of an accomplished a woman knows better.
We can imagine the pride. which novelist, but rather through the The host is Imppy when the has been taken in producing two inch-by-inch working of ingined quest is gone."
volumes in handy format and in a experience, the aristocrat found "A boltle-nosed man may be a fanner which greets and pleases himself among the suitors of this teetotaler, but no one will think the eye. They are indeed henti- pensant girl. And Valls, who had ful tit covetings are these artistic protested against the marriage to. bilings for royal things.
Catalina. none the less favoured this C. G. much humbler union. For he realised that Febrer had really Prose and Vorse... Two Velines lile: "No; the dend do not cou
[Gems of Chiness. Literature. learned the meaning of renewed $10. Kelly & Walsh, Hongkong.Imand.
It is life that' commands, and above life, love!" There are many digressions in this novel, but they are all rich with the savour of reality, and particularly interesting is the sketch of George Sand's love- slory with Chopin in the island of Majoren.
(Book Club No. 11.)
About twice in a centary & Jonti writes a book that he is really cap able of writing. About once in a thousand years a book is written by of line it is manifestly impossible eover a period of such a great length the only man who can write it. To paraphrase this somewhat in cote, and extraei there, for the to quale generonly. We must dip nection with the books under roview, about twice in a century a
space at our dispusal is not sufficient man translates a book that he is to be generons. We may fail in our really expable of translating and about once in a thousand yours a book is translated by the only man who can translate it. This an truly be said of Herbert A. Giles who in 1883 gave us his rendition of “Gems of Chinese Literature of which the second edition has now been issued. Adpately to review such a work predisposes a know-
"When you have done your
·ledge not merely of the Chinese"
duty in ministering to your lungnage but of Chinese thought
parents and serving your sover- and feeling down the ages, i know eign, then you my drink and eat lege which is given but few to until you are tipy and replete." In the verse volume Mr. Giles gives possess and to him presemiarmly to
In other words, subordinate yours to understand that all Chinese whom a tribute is due from the few drinking to the merits of your law. Poetry is lyrical in the sense that fan Tzu dith originally it was intended to be set who are able to assess as experts
ful conduct. only can, anil to the countless kuni-
taa 山
to use and sung-the best of a centmies
Let us put him to the bers who are willing and anxious responsible for words of wisdom lyricism, to be led in the paths which had beyond price : Mighty is he test.
**Don't come in, sir, please! who enginers himself" is a Poul to a vista that is entrancing, a
Don' break my willow trees!* wisdom that is entering, and to many. Thase who know th
Not that that would very much gun as insight into the mind of a Truth are not equal to thog who love it: por those who love it to
grieve me; people who botst eivilisation impérior to any yet known. “What work nobler than transplanting foreign thought," Carlyle sarresting ponese greats the eye as or opens
get to convey the idea we would We do an injustice to this work by flat, but we have already said quoting what the ultra-clever may sufficient 10 indiente how this | describe ns only suurt sayings, but noble and formidable work appeals Our excuse is space, or its lack of it, Here is the Duke of Chou Ciet the work and gree as you soon who died INS B.. writing will that no-one who professes
To his desire to be acquainted" with the Against Drunkenness." high officers and others he literature of a mighty and
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fascinating people, can be without these volumes. And agree also with the quotation in the preface that Unfold treasures lie hidden in the rich lodes of Chiness Literature.
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se who delight in it" remarks Ung Pu-Tsa." Thy proses section is not all epigramatic: not all me plareas which give sus to pause by
But alick-day!
What
my parents say? And love you as I may,
1 cannot bear to think that
woukl
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the first of these volumes, and the reason of their elevr-ent incisiveness This is the first verse on the first past. To restore the fortunes of Isfigures, members of the snout set plot is complicated by the fact that book contains,
simple statement or Jact is analantly demonstrated as
reader tains jage after page of
refreshingly fresh-as fresh as it
Ibanez, franslated into living Eng
This novel by Vicente BlascoTHE CHINESE BUNGALOW. fish by Frances Douglas, shows that strong. Spanish writer in his earlier ARMter. The scene opens in a
after the mysterious Sybilla who is and it is therefore no matter for sur Majorean polare, of which Jaitne
en route from England. In this,prise that Mrs. Osmond's characters Febrer, the descendant of an old and illustrious franils, has become the life of the British conuumity in Lu, who, believing in his own style which is light and readable the brother, Richard Marquess, alan not very convincing, Apart This story gives us a glimpse of wealthy planter, is frustrated by from this, it is a capital novel, in almost literally the concierge rather laya in nove form, and in this.eeliar way that the soul of his and replete with many apt turns of. than the master. Ruined as he was, her second book, Mra. Osmund wife's dead lover will remain earth expression, however, Jaine remained in the places the whole action of the book bound and unhappy until his wrongs conversations- is good, and she has Her handling of the would jou portraits fastrack on his homilia that
grip of his anerstors, whose tarnish-Malaya. And cleverly contrived have been set right, seeks revenge succeeded in giving them a natural
action is. Twi tion the flaming arrogance of the triangles, in which the central the earth-bound spirit free.
elemalin preventing that whicle would set and true ring. The same may be f the earity of their dought, and their
ved truth of adness. The lank is we begin to nad of fines house he felt himself competed to at Gwala and the ovenpants of the he desires to possess his wife's sister descriptive touches, too, are good. The aid of the saliloquies which the studded with saraples of delight.der de caption of "To a Yeangarry a rich wousa, 3, to the Chinese bungalow. Yuen Tai, his who is loved by the young English On the pictures given of the socin! The occasional fankey and pass, all crucedientleman."
We tuay be wrong.horror of his old housekeper, he English wife and her sister, are all man. Richard Marquess, and be life of the white folks in Malaya was the early arment it was penned is beautiful terms, all nære or less flu to us music of a soft-brarti chose a rich fewess, Catalina, tein some way concerned; a spice of tasks for her in exeimage for a letter and on the philosophy attributed to -of amezing insight, and delightful pointing; e neral de alorning a tak. Blightsameness is suggested ianuali- nive of one of his best friends, the supernatural; and a mysterions which will enable Marquess to re-thein, we wisdom. Fo. revisar and discuss Song Ya writes of the Wind" fately. Discard this test and make captain Park Valls.
will not gid, Sybilla, who such a work as this is to consider "Unpopularity." Tan Kungon if the of tunsie only in the sound
Externally, this seems & macinerious factor almost in the to his dying brother. Marquess is cause any British resident in Malaya amain faithful to the promise given Suffice it to say these pictures may **Poser and Moining Mong Tao of words, or the magie of a message philosophers. The work is describes! Fon "Charity of Hurt" and quotes in rhyme, or thought, or whatever used theme for so distinguished and of the book, form the basis between two stools, as the China-who muy read the book, to think, the Segaration of you will in whatever way verse my approach it is the spirit familiar to The wealthy Chinese. Tann Ju, is tales and which leads to a thrill-voke a smile. It should be as
Inovelist. but Ibanez does not Mencius
of a plot which compels interest.
un thinks, but fate unexpectedly for, on the other hand, they may Sexos. Han Fei, Bacan-like deals appeal to you.
Disappointment readers of ordinary English Region, the auditional Chinese of fiction. ang na-elitas es the result of popular as is "The Owl and the with "Ciremastantes Alter Cases," will not be the reader's
Merely His characters are indivizdised Whilst another writes on "Does God astonishment, voler se, upit, with feree int-nsity, and Mujores, sinister atal inscrutable, fente, which matters are straightened out. Moon, with which the writer Mr. Giles makes that good. The
Senttered througlom and the things which take the truc
The creation of einmieters which made her literary début a year ago. the proses section are such arresting reler ut, above and beyond laminer his tarch. For that "Flandresing in European fashion, but are as living beings in the mind of It may be mentioned that the book post and present, lives historically saking excelent English and **instalment 建议
temdator
Century Before self. Titles must suffice to indicateder of history" seems to pervade Fast. The lover of his white wife literary genius which is only apr closely in the running for the 1921 actuated by the mysticism of the the reader is one of the stamps of is one of the novels which was adunits consists of Short extrarities s
Charist. ***Conangge." "On War" only the tread of these
versesJaime and Citalian, and oven the dies, but before dying, in from the works of the most famous
Husbandman's Bong," writers of all ages, upon which time Music The Disadvantages of "The
ent in the works of very few con-Tolin Long £500 prize for the best Parted." The Elisir of Life." Wanderer Valls, who insisted endeavour to put right a wrong be temporary novelists their number first novel. Wealth." "Confucianism,“ has set an ingreving . These
The Genus of Wine A Tryst, Love's way." Here always on his origin. "prochas done, asks his brother, the third could be counted on one's fingers Don," are chronologically arranged and
islimate Chases" :-
in a loal voice his Chuetan ancestry
an in the second triangle, to look Į.
(Book Club No.......)
the Chituese .* thinkers an
as a venture in a new direction.”
There is no work leafing to' an acquaintanceship, however slight, with the gener it-tate of luna.
Intervete
JAPAN'S
remains
On
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
comment.
Building which crashed into the street, killing several people.
Havoc wrought by the earthquake. Note the gaping holes in the roadway.
Flames doing their terrible work
This splendid building ·
was irretrievably ruined.
Roof of a building which collapsed after the first shock.
Terrible havoc in the heart of the city after the fires had done their worst.
Even the light built native bones suffered severely.
Building completely demolished. "The one still standing bas been gutteil dy firo.
Deeclation everywhere. W bole buildings were completely
destroyed.
翻译
Hones completely wrecked. Hundreds of lives were lost in emilar collapses in the city.