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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This crossneord puzzle has been inade by an expert but nur zeaders are warned to look out for occasional phonetic, spellings, such as harków, plow, and alikoj
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45-ley (Poet.}
47-Impose upon
46-Pronoun
49-Vehicle drivers
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VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Fishing nets 13-Bhoomakers
implement 15-Swindles (slang) 18-Look Bulky
81-Reformed Protestant 21-Plodges
Episcopal (abbr)
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appene in Monday's issued along with a neio cross-word puzzle.)
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
CANTER
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
WHAT WE OWE TO THE CLASSICS
WOMEN'S PLACE IN LE GOSPELS
CHARACTER STUDIES IN A NEW BOOK
stories are
was a Quaker who spent most of her life and her energy in probing the mysteries of the myriad neuro- INFLUENCE OF ROMAN AND
tic forms of religion which Infeat. GREEK THOUGHT.
ed the United States of America during the middle of the last cen- [By Professor R. V. D. Magolin.}
tury. She was drawn to them not It seems to be generally acknow- by force of any morbid curiosity, ledged that Virgil's "Acneld" is
but simply because she would never only second to Homer's "Iliad" and despair in her belief that the Holy "Odyssey" in the field of epic. Spirit must be somewhere present she has compled ("The Women of poetry. Perhaps the Greek scholar tion to what the worshipper sincere amid so much complete consecra- of a generation ago overstressed they believed to be His wili. debt of Virgil to Homer,' and the Latin' scholar outdid himself to show that it was far from being a
just appraisal It is the task of the
She
tried sect, after ct, and in all of them she found the the bright, had begun their life of consecra- mysterical hopes with which they classical scholar who knows hia Greek, Latin archaeology, philo
tion and obedience had quickly be logy, history and all the rest to cast esoteric streaks, and had finally de- come shot through with gloomy up accounts that show all the declined altogether along the well- bits and credits and give us A balance as correct as that of a cer- tified accountant.
There is, in the Roman epic a world of little known things which
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worn sexual path, which the Middle Ages knew so well to be the end of uncontrolled mysticiam. Each sect scores of them in her historical in and Mrs. Strachey chronicles
Character studies of women whose related in the four Gospels have been made by Miss A. Christitch in a comprehensive book
the Gosp Burns, Oates, and Washbour Ltd., 24. 6.).
"Throuaout the pages of the four Gospels" states Miss Christitch, rejecting the word of Chrát, nor are "there is no record of a woman's
we told of any woman taking part infleted upon Him during, His in the moral and physical tortures Passion.
"There can be до doubt that women were Included in the crowds mentioned by the four Evangelista ing His minkstry. Matthew (xiv., as following the Divine Master dur-
a proper relation and correlation, troduction-fell, and in its fall in.-21) tells can bring together in a way to involved the moral ruin of many terest and perhaps amaze the casual tives. And of all these sects, one, reader. One of the greatest love and one only, was led by a man stories in the world is in the whose sincerity was open to doubt. "Aeneid." and there also is one of Most of the rest ended by sanctify. the most interesting attempta ever
ing the vilest sexual licence in a made to lead an erring and war-
18 that the multitude and two fishes, miraculously multi- which had eaten of the five loaves plied in the desert, numbered 5,000 men besides women and children." speaks of a certain woman from "In Chapter XI, Verse, 27, Luke
weary people back into the morali spirit of fanatical sincerity, to what the crowd lifting up her voice,' nnd |
ties of the good old days.
they honestly believed to be the It has always been easier to re- tragedy lies in the unconsciousness guidance of the Holy Spirit. Their member the names of poets and of their blasphemy, and this book philosophers than it is to appreci- Is so terrible that one has no in ate poetry or understand philose-clination to lighten a review of it phy. The Greeks set us the pat by being humorous about the oddi- tern' for both, and, strange as it
iles of the sects. may neem, all the poets and philo-. saphers in all lands ever since have not seen able to get beyond the mark those ancients set. There must be some reason for that.
were
The
The Greeks and Romans much simpler and more direct than are the peoples of this age. directness of their ideas, coupled with the mobilities of their infleet- ed languages, enabled them to in- vent types of meters and varieties of prose that fitted the subject mat ter so well that their modela are still ours.
Much of what the Greeks and Remana thought and wrote has a priceless heritage come to us through their literatures; much of what they did in art. engineering architecture, many of the games they played, the weapons they used in war, the utensils of the kitchen, the furniture of the house, the jewellery of the women, have come to us, lately through archaeological investigation either in exact pic- torial representation or the very articles and monuments and statues and paintings themselvos,
RELIGIOUS FERVOURS ["Religious Fanaticism." By Ray Strachey. (Faber and Faber. 128, (d).]
"Eye well those heroes who have held their heads above water; who have touched pitch and have not been defiled, and in the common contagion have remained uncar- rupted." Thus Sir Thomas Browne in his "Christian Morals" wrote of a variety of heroism too often un- recognised for what it is, and his words would serve admirably for an epitaph of Hannah Whitall Smith, whose posthumous papers are here edited and introduced by her grand-daughter. For Hannah Smith did indeed, touch pitch. She
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Hannah Smith approached each sect with the thought that parhapa at last she was going to find the secret of the divinely-controlled human life. Each time she was dis- appointed. But she was saved from, more than disappointment by her the authority there must always be common sense, which was for her
in religion if it is to prosper, and, highest of all testimonies, she never lost her patience with those most misguided and wretched folk, nor permitted herself to doubt their sincerity. She touched pitch and was not defiled, and is there fore among the heroines: This book has at least as much value as the as a history of a religious phase. record of a gallant apirit as it has
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A NEW ANTHOLOGY
["Great Essays of Nations." Edited by F. H. Pritchard. (Harrap. 88. 6d)]
women were usual among His fol- effected by the Redeemer reveal that the various accounts of the cures
lowing.
the crowd would have brought "Again, who but the mothars in children that He might bless ever sought to be in His vicinity and them?... Thus we see that women to listen to His teaching."
Miss Christitch delineates the various figures she has drawn with- in her book with delicacy and a potiesable economy. of words,
Finally she writes:- "Jesus did not actually pronounce on the position of women. He did far more: He acted.
Thus: He counted women among His friends; He discussed theology with them: He marked them out for especial apostleship' He selected them to be the instruments of communicating the fundamental truth of mission; and above all, it was upon His
the fat of a woman that He made the salvation of the human dependent."
TECA
thinker summed up a common ex- perience was the parent of the essay, which really came into being when writers expressed a series of per sonal reflections upon a given topic. The term "essay" thereafter be comes essentially elastic. It em.
An anthology of essays, ancient and modern, English, and foreign, was badly needed, and Mr. Pritchard, braces equally the worldy wiadom has provided it in generous measure. of Bacon, the urbanity of Addison, He spans the whole sweep of time the vigour of Carlyle, and the clever- gives a selection of essays from no from. Confuelus to Chesterton, and ness of Chesterton. fewer than twenty-six countries. perusal of these essays may merit One suggestion aroused by the
He has had the assistance of many especial attention. All the modern experts and his choice is excellent, essays are generally subtle and Over two hundred essays are here:charming; but they may be con-i collected, some translated for the sidered to lack virility. Mr. H. L. finst time.
Mencken cuta deep in his essay on Mr. Wells, but the rest are dis- tinctively gentle or whimsical.
Mr. Pritchard fully observes the anthologist's duty of keeping him self in the back-ground, but his introduction is well worth noticing. It has been thought that the essay begins with Montaigue, but Mr. Pritchard is justified in tracing it back to the rudimentary maxims of earliest civilised times. The pithy saying in which the gifted
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It need only be added that one cannot leave this volume without paying tribute to the publisher as well as to the editor. Like Its well-known companions, It le well produced, is remarkable value, and is worth a prominent place on any bookshelf.
He
INTERPORT CRICKET was three years ago, when Mr. Han try. He did not do well in the cock's XI met with their disastrous 1927 matches, but the Malayan team experiences on the Singapore and (Continued from Page 13.)
as a whole seemed to be suffering Kuala Lumpur pitches it is too from an inferiority complex on that Malayan sides which went to Hong to bowl with such remarkable suc-
much to expect that he will be able occasion, and we all hope to hear Kong in 1924 and 1927, when they cess as he did then taking nine his second visit to Hong Kong. of the S.C.C. skipper doing well on were defeated in both matches wickets for 10 runs in the visitors | Brand, undoubtedly, next to Livock The aldo which went up in 1920 trat innings on the Padang, and (who, incidentally played for the was more successful, for, although even for 46 in the second innings the Straits in the Hong Kong they lost to Shanghai by an innings, at Kuala Lumpur, after that famous matches in 1924, when he was with they defeated Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Visit Recalled
old veteran, Dr. Hennessey, had the Pegasus) the best wicket-keeper had seven for 10 in the first innings, in the country, has scored a lot of The advantage conferred upon Nevertheless, his inclualan ensures runs in this country in recent years the home side in these matches can that the opposition batamen, will and is still as good as over. not be better demonstrated than by have a bower against them who and Knight, (they both played in reference to the results of the Hong is also something of tactician. 1924) are the only players besides Kong visit to Malaya in 1926 and For pace bowing the team will be Braddell who have taken part in the return visit to Hong Kong in weil supplied. Smith, the Carey inter-port matches in Hong Kong. the following year, Hong Kong's Island player, has not been seen in Evan Wong, who enjoyed a more experiences here were catastrophic, even compared, with Malaya's fate any of the big matches yet, but he remarkable season this year than in Hong Kong in 1927. On the bowler in the country just now and be called upon to open the tunings, is stated to be faster than any other any other batsman, will probably Padang Malaya acored 888, (of which Rhodes made 102 and R. N. Lal Singh, the young Kuala Lum and there will be hope, confined not Hamilton 96) and dismissed the pur all-rounder, is bowling at much entirely to his own communits, that visitors for 95 and 286 In the greater pace than he was a year or he will justify the inclusion for the match against the F.3.8. the local two ago. Then there is Braddell first time of a Chinese player. In a side scored 224, and Hong Kong
and Jansen, the Caylonese player, Malayan Inter-port eleven. Gibson were dismissed for 41 and 76. Yet who was the outstanding bowler in has been scoring plenty of runs in temporary account of the Prince's able to send only a very weak team Penang. Hopkins, Knight and Hill, Lat Singh, and Wynch are all in the following year Malaya were this year's Colony-F.M.S, match at Singapore this year, and Bostock example is considerably more vivid for 98 and 141 by Hong Kong, and of a different type and Evan Wong in this class of cricket. Another hiding-place at Ben Alder, for to Hong Kong, which was dismissed leat Waring will provide bowling good bata capable of getting rans
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This is the story of Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender, In. the long years after Culloden. It Is necessary a sordid and tragic story, for Charles's later life was one of moral decline and hopeless failure, scarcely lit up by one or two opisodes of persdrial courage, -as when he risked his life by His-re- turn to London five years after the battle that proved so costly to those who had followed him
Misk Bake eminently qualified on the score of historical know than her own page on the same sub- 77, and 02-by Shanghai. These who Is included principally on ac-highly important thing runs are ledge to tell the story, and she has ject Incidentally, it may be noted tours are merely mentioned to in-count of his batting and also as a not likely to be given away by slack produced volume which will be in this connection that there is no diente that there is a big advantage reserve wicket-keeper in case of work in the field. All things con- read with the keenest Interest Sheriffmale in the neighbourhood in being hosts on such an occasion. Brand being injured or unable to sidered, we think Malays can look No doubt she states as categorical of Ben Alder. There Is a Sherra. We are confident, however, that the play-dan also be called upon forward to the approaching tests tacts certain things which are on her nobiles, the prasant side will do better than its The Batting real matters of conf cture, and locality utended.
with vary much more confidence - two" (mmediate predecessore even
than was justified either in 1924 or If it does not emulate the leat of
1927./ Save money the team which went up in 1904 Established classes and pen and defeated Hong Kong and
will not be the only Civil ShanghaLAG ants o benefit by Mr Snow Strong Attack
suspension of the bonus drop. It is a very strong bowling side | With scores of 60% and 63Brad- from September 1 indeed, for it includes nine bowlera dell has not been doing a well this sion is to extends to the who will bring a variety Into the Benson as he has done in the past Clerlent chases, attack which will be very valuable, but his Imings, in> PeAlty composed voz e True, Bostock Hill is per Admiot at a very critical time, wid
that deadly arent these day the past he has played in the
liberty on
den's
The com
At the same time the side is one which should get a lot of runs. We are lucky to have a batsman of the quality of Hopkins available. He was the most successful of the Colony, players in the August match
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