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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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10-Varnish-like
substance
13-iroland
15-Asiatic country
16-Particle
17-Akin 19-Lawn covering 21-God of love 23-Snowshoes 24-Musical note 26-Accomplish 27-Social, alique 29-Exista
`30-Man's name (short)
31-Printer's measure
(pl.)
33-Lamp
36-A liquer
37-Sketched
39-Larlat
40-Urges
41-Public speaker
42-Fall
43-Uneven
44-Ball teams
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62-Pronoun
63-Conjunction
54-Motor fuel
55-A parent 67-Liko
68-Female sheep 60-Man's name 82-Throws off 65-Grazing space 67-Paradise 68-Made public 70-Foam
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25-Lovasions
27-Trapping
28-Provers 30-School study 32-Help 34-Lengthwlaa 36-Awaken 96-Glowing
38-Course
71-Man's nams (short) 40-Flow out
72-Even with 73-Affirmative
VERTICAL
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9-Organs of hearing 10-Waste
11-Corroded
46-Floats up and down 12-Royal homes
48-Poem
14-The spikenard
49--Pays no attention to 16-Egyptian goddsas
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45-Bible character 47-Methods 49-Angers 60-Mineral springa 63-Man's name BB-Sciences.
58-Level 59-Pierce 60-Objectionabia
fellows
81-Girl's name 63-N, W. Siato (abbr.) 64 Title of respect 65-A legume 66-Regret 69-Musical note
The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issued along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION MACE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
PEOPLE'S LIBRARY
CEYLON DIRECTORY ROMANTIC TRILOGY
COLLECTION OF SHORT
1 SKETCHES
FULL OF STATISTICS AND'
OTHER INFORMATION
A BOOK OF REFERENCE
["New Silent Friends," by Richard
are
are
LUDWIG II. OF BAVARIA
This biography completes what the author terms a romantic
King; Hodder and Stoughton, 2/6 net.]
A directory to be complete to trilogy"-"Franz Liszt, the Man of This is a collection of short furnish all necess ry useful Love," "Chopin, a Man of Solitude," sketches in which the author con- information and statistica to the sub-title of this last volume be- verses familiarly with his readers merchants and private individuals ing "The Man of Illusion." It may on all sorts of topics. Mr. King is must necessarily be concise and easy to doubted whether such labels are a genial philosopher whose slogans of reference, and, above all, it must happy; there were many great lovers "Live and let live": "Mind contain nothing but the latest besides the Abbe Liszt, many lone- your own business and above all available information as to generally souts besides Chopin, and all keep a curb on your tongue." Some trade conditions, etc. Such a book touched with insanity might be call- of his aphorisms
neat and of reference is rarely to be founded "men of illusion" while these quaint: thus "Study is the joy of in the Far East, and it is therefore three had other sides to their middle age, not a youthf joy." gratifying to find that "Ferguson's characters. Human beings are toa "Letters are often but the adminis Cevion Directory" for 1929, a copy complex for division into those tration of oxygen to a Friend- of which we have just received, arbitrary typea, and in the present ship already in extremis.”. "Life comes up to standard.
biography there is an attempt to stretches away behind ax 2
"The Ceylon Observer," who are trim the specimen to fit the tag on metaphorical mass of loose ends: the publishers of this standard the case, and to overdo an alluring the majority of people reach old age reference book on Ceylon are to be but misleading-resemblance be- exasperated by the thought that congratulated on. their efforts. tween Ludwig II and Shakespeare's they really seem to have accomplish- "Ferguson's Directory was first Hamlet. The reader would pro- ed nothing worth while." "There is published by them in 1859 annuallybably relish the story without these really nothing quite so venomous as on May 15. The book is therefore devices of which M. Pourtales, an the gossiping tongues of those who now in its 70th year.
accomplished writer of the analyti live in rural places." "How jealous Although the current year's | cal, emotional school, stands'in no most of us are of the reputation edition was produced in circum- need; that is, if it be admitted that certain people have for being better stances which were unique in its such a dreadful tale can be relish- than
are ourselves." We
"The career-in that the workmen went ed by any save the morbidly curious. sexual sins are glualed over and on strike for over two months and remembered longer than all others." half-yet the Directory was issued on May 17, only two days after the usual date of publication! A fine effort!
THE MYSTERY OF "JACK THE
RIPPER"
The most tragic life of this un- happy mail-handsome, gifted, noble, inspired by exalted ideals, lovable and sincere-cannot be read without a deep pity and the sense of shame that comes from probing
Excuse for Hero
It is a concise and up-to-date Directory containing information of into suffering: vital importance to commercial houses having connection with Ceylon, as well as to residents of that country.
The Directory is well printed on good paper and the classified sections make it easy of reference.
would attract the public mind, and
races
And the horror of the haunting tallies precisely in the fact that
Mr. King has some trenchant things to say about matrimony and our divorce laws. The articles at the beginning of the book about bachelor housekeeping are excellent but the two which end the volume are platitudinous. Much better had
The author, who writes (or bas the author applied the blotter at the
tranelated) vaguely, ceems
to end of his sketch entitled
doubt the insanity of Ludwig II., "Cornwall." As it is, however, the
and brings out the modern book, in spite of these last two
scapegoat, a repressed childhood, as articles and a frequent tendency of
an excuse for much of his hero's be- the author to repeat himself and his
haviour; but the sanast of the sane glaring misuse of the word "like,"
have often had grim or stupid parents, and nothing but is a charming compilation well up
a deep to the high standard of entertain-his conviction was that if you want- taint of what we still have no other ment that one expects from volumes ed a big circulation you must pay name for but "insanity" can ex- in the People's Library.
special attention to crime and to plain the actions of this beautiful sport. One day he said to me (youth (the beauty shows
even in REIGN OF TERROR
had not yet realized the importance the ugly dress, the stiff photograph) of the man) that if you wanted to of the ancient house of Wittela- sell a paper at, say, the Elephant bach, his own master at 20, wealthy, and Castle, the first thing you had admired, obeyed, a king. to do was to be there before any- The Right Hon. T.. P. O'Connor, body else with the first news of the M.P., writes in T.P.'s Weekly:--
of the day. "It does not with his material circumstances of matter," he said vehemently, "what fairy-tale brightness this unfor- I have very good reasons-apart from those which attracted the at-be Tory or Liberal, Home Rule or in which he ultimately sank, entirely your politics are; your readers may tunate man evolved a spiritual hell, tention of the author of this book Unionist, whatever you please; if out of his own soul.
The Mystery of Jack the Rip- your paper, with the result of a per" by Leonard Matters (Hutchin race, gets to the Elephant and of Richard Wagner lured him into In his youth the mighty genius son, 10s. 6d.)-to remember "Jack Castle thirty seconds before any the unbearable twilight, the mon the Ripper." His crimes
strous thickets where move the upon London in the most critical other, your paper will be bought."
He had the same view with regard ancient gods who are not lightly to moments for me for they happened to a popular murder. There was be faced by mortals; and in his within a few weeks after I had. started the "Star"
a case, very famous at the time, middle age the stuves glories of I was young where a man murdered a girl at the Versailles impired him into lunatic to editing at the time, and had paid seaside. I cannot tell you all the buildings of lonely splendour, where, little attention to any topic. in my
elaborate measures which were surrounded only by lackeys, the paper-or indeed in any other paper taken by Kennedy Jones to get the Bavarian who never reigned posed
but that of the keen political first news of the verdict. struggle that was then going on several men stationed about the who, sane and shrewd, was perhaps He bad in a travesty of the Roi Soleil, over Home Rule.. An old editor court-house, an elaborate system of the lesser man. warned me not to make the mistake signals by which the result could of thinking, because polities so be conveyed from the window next
Terrible Absurdity
of poignancy is absorbed me, they would necessarily the jury box; and, in short, I think given by the terrible absurdity; absorb the attention of my readers; we were the first to announce to our Ludwig, enraptured by Wagner, was he warned me that most people office in Loudon the verdict.
sublimely mad; Ludwig, enthralled were more interested in sport than in politics, and shove all he warned
by Louis XIV, was ridiculously crazy-and how much more, tragic me that a crime. was a subject of
in consequence! aver-absorbing importance to the general mass of readers.
Courts of Death
came
"Leather Apron"
The last touch
One day Kennedy Jones came to me in a state of great excitement to tell me that he would be able to
M. Pourtales does not emphasise track down the author of these a horrible touch of the grotesque In horrible Whitechapel murders, who, this pitiful- story-the umbrella A startling confirmation of this at that particular period, was to that was the constant companton last statement came to me when the many people, especially in the East of this murders of Jack the Ripper began End, the most interesting man in braved, in his mind, all the tempests Tristan-Lohengrin who to horrify and finally to absorb the
the kingdom. The murders had of earth and heaven. attention of most of the reading thoroughly frightened the people not a sword, was thrust into the An umbrella, public, especially in the East End, Vigilance committees had been ap- plaster statue that shamed his where the murders were committed.pointed to help the police in track dreams; an umbrella was waved at Almost night after night for a fewing down this monster. weeks the body of a prostitute people narrowly escaped being through the leafage; in the final Several the trees where the Valkyrie rode was found in one of the back streets lynched because of their sup- violent, piteous and it was en or courts of Whitechapel. Most of posed identification аб the umbrella that was found on the the bodies were mutilated as well author of the murders. For banks of the lake, the day promised as murdered. There was no tracea while there was an un
wet for the last walk left whatever that could lead to the fortunate Pole, who, for some detection of the murderer.
Many there be who cannot well reason or other, was known among separate the dream from the buusi- The circulation of my paper his associates as "Leather Apron ness, and for them the tragedy of went up from something over rand who for days figured at the top Ludwig of Bavaria, with his soaring hun of the interesting personalities of empty palaces and his umbrella, will dred thousand copies, and finally the period. Until in the end possess a horrid fascination: for to a quarter of a million or more: there seemed to be an accumulation though the man was mad it was of evidence that in him the sssassin with a most understandable mad- was at last to be found
hundred thousand to two
the newspaper presses were working
at feverish haste to bring out edition after edition, which were grabbed by eager crowds outside.
Quick Results
At that time the chief reporter on
My paper was one of the many which had printed all the evidence that seemed to point to "Leather
ness.
Apron as the murderer; but soon name of the man whom this evidence
my staff was a gentleman who was afterwards the poor devil was able was intended to identify; he belong- then unknown, but soon afterwards to prove incontestably his innocence, ed to a respectable firm of horticul- the following list of some of the rose to great eminence and to great A dexterous expedient adopted by turists, and the story wound up highest points on the Island and wealth by entering into combination my then chief sub-editor (still a die- with the statement that he was Mainland 18 published:
with Alfred Harmsworth, Kennedy tinguished figure in newspaper ultimately found drowned in the Jones had a weird insight Into what
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Another False Trail Mr. Kennedy Jones, backed by a man who had been once in the detec tive fores and who had dropped out, professed te
had got the
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And now I have before me a book which retells the whole story, and in which the author gives his own solution of the mystery and pro fesses to identify the man who was that at last he the real murderer. He gives him ter, a fake name, but be secumulates a
reat deal of testimony that
some"}
ver the
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