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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzir has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic apellings, such as harbor, plaw, and altho.)
2.
TO
14 15 16
19
11
12
14
15
16
17
118
19
20
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123
24
26 27
30
131
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35
136
37
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143
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139 140 41
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HORIZONTAL
1-A type of airship 7-A tree sap used for
varnish
10-Southern constel.
Tatlon
11-Combing form.
One
12-8. Philippine
native
13-An Indian memoriat
- pent
14-Pronoun
5-To defame 16-Retirement 19-Portuguese coln
(pl.)
20-A binding stone 24-Egyptian sun-god 25-Latin for "Vonico” 20-Near
28-A substancs
excreted by baes 29-N. Central State of
S. (abbr.)
30-The Mohammadan
ninth month
33-In this manner
34-A twining plant
49
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 36-Specks
37-A Tartar conqueror;
of Aala 139-One who fite on
Choos
42-Each (abbr.) 43-Part of "to be" (ald form) 145-Possessive pronoun į46-A membranous
pouch |47-King (French)
48-Born 49-Independent of tima
י
VERTICAL
1-A aux or siste-ax 2-Time-perlod (pl.) 3-Father (Latin) 4-District of N. Italy 5-Sacred flower of
Egypt
6-Into
7-A stroke in tennis
B-Ex'st
9-A Western mining State of U. &,
VERTICAL (Cont) 12-N. Central State of
LI. 6.
16-A diving water bird 17-Author of "Don
Quixote" 18-Alpine mountain
goat
21-Delirium tremen
(sbbr.) 22-German Indefinite
article }29-Twenty-third
President of U. 5. 25-Large moving wagon 27-Greek felter T 28-Moderately hot 81-Symbal for man-
далево
$2~Precious 33-Comfort in grief- 36-A visionary Idea 136-Trap
38-Greek god of love 40-A particular ahade
of a color 141-Metal-bearing rock
44-It is, contracted 146-A note of the scale
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Alice White, pelita film actress, announced her engagement to Bidney Bartlett, New York stage actor, now In pictures. The marriage, aho said, will take place after January 1
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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THE CHINA MAIL,
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A Wonderful Little Family
Austin
Wonderful Days," by
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LOCAL PUBLICATION; GALLANT RALEIGH New. Issue of Education The Bitter Poetry of the
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|Magnificent Elizabethan
The figure of Sir Walter Raleigh Is clothed, to the modern imagina- tion, in magnificence. In his very death he was magnificent, going to the scaffold with a feat on his lips. "It is my last mirth In this world," he said, "do not grudge it me." And yet, with his dark hair, his haughty good looks-the best hated man in England--he is something: of an enigma. ·
This journal is the official organ of the Hong Kong University Education Society.
Be it said at once that the journal reveals to us A society which understands the These are two delightful books word education in its fullest sense. for children between the ages of as the forming of an intelligent, four and ten "Wonderful Daya" is a cultured point of view, able to as- fantastic story of a wonderful taimilate and to appreciate the best tle family told in about seventy-five of the past, while eagerly scanning, little versicles. Mr. Latham be- selecting from, and adding to what longs to that small and select band is new in the realm of thought, AB Miss A M. Latham of geniuses whose high priests are scientific, literary, and artistic. points out in her edition of R.L.S., Lewis Carroll and A. A. The editorial notes deal, in parti-The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh" Mine, men who can write poetry cular, with the changes in the re-(constable, IGs.), he led no move- for the very young without becom-gulations for Matriculation, and ment, had ne party. We do not ing mawkish. Many of these verses support the plea fur A higher know what he aimed at. He was have already appeared in well standard in English. The syllabus amazingly successful, and at the known English newspapers, and we for the Elocution Examinations of same time he was n spectacular congratulate the author and the Trinity College of Music la failure. We can never gauge the publisher on rescuing them and explained and recommended to reasons of his sudden rise, never Issuing them in such dainty form. schools as a help to the mastery and look into his ambitious heart; and The drawings by Murlel Dawson appreciation of spoken English. yet there is one way in which we are snappy and catch the elfish The momentous decision of the
can look into his heart. spirit of the verses.
Nanking Educational Conference What Mr. Latham has done in that the colloquial (Pei Hun Won) verse Una Rosamund [Mrs. A. S. Matyle of writing be taught in China "Little Fairy Day Dream" we have is dealt with both here and in an Hutchinson) has done in prose. In instead of the Classical (Wen Li) a tale of a poor wandering little able article by Mr. Fenwick girl shivering in the snow auddenly "The Chinese Written Language" taken charge of by a beneficent fairy. She visits Fairyland and which advocates simplification and runs across Mother Goose, Little suggests a combination of phonetic Jack Horner, the Three Blind Mice and ideographic writing as a pan- and other old favourites. A word of praise is due to Douglas Dick for his well executed and skilfully i conceived drawings which are a feature of a well printed and hand- somely bound volume.
These two worka are ideal Christ- mas books for small children.
BOOKS TO BUY
Random Glance At Volumes Here
The lover of books amy well be advised to visit Messrs. Kelly and Walsh's shop in Chater Road. There will be found a good seler- tion of books of all types. An out- standing book in the window is "Roper's Row" by the famous writer of "Sorrell and Son,' War- wick Deeping, the medical student. "To the memory of my mother" is inscribed inside. the front cover, which is black and yellow, The author gives a touching life story of Dr. Christopher Huzzard, who had to strive hard through thick and thin, to attain his ideal in life. (Cassell 7/6).
W. J. Locke gives light romance in his book "Ancestor Jorico" (The Bodley Head, 7/6).
The Uncertain Trumpet" (Hod
holds"
on
Everybody knows Kit Marlowe's Poem "Come Live with me and be my Love," with its enchanting
the passionate shepherd, and she catalogue of promised delights. Raleigh makes the nymph reply to rejects his offers with such reasoned mistrust as might chill
any rustic lover:
Romes.
11
Thy gownes, thy shoes, thy beds of! Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy poesies, Soone breake, soone wither, soone for-
gotten:
In follie ripe, in reason rotten.
Or else he unburdens his mind with ten lines "On the Life of Man":
What is our life? a play of passion, Our mirth the musieke of diuision, Our mothers
wombes
the tyring
houzes be,
Where we are dreat for this short
Comedy,
Heaven the Iudicious sharpe specta-
tor 15,
That sits and markes still who doth
act amisse.
Our graues that he
searching Sun,
us from the
Are like drawne curtaynes when the
play is done,
Thus march we playing to our latest
rest,
Onely we dye in earnest, that's no
Iest.
Or else he inveighs against the hard dealings of Time:
Oh cruel Time which takes in trust
our youth, our Jnyes and all we haue, and payes us but with age and dust, who in the darke and silent graue when we haue wandred all our wayes shutts up the story of our dayes.
Throughout Raleigh's poetry there runs this note of bitterness, of dia-i author, has been awarded the Yalunificence had seen through the pre- George Young, British diplomat and illusionment, as if the man of mag- University prize of $2.000 for the best tences of glory; and yet once, in a article printed during 1028 on national or International affairs. The winning West." article was "The Near East Goes
der and Stoughton 7/6) by A. S. Maible solution of the difficulties In Hutchinson, author of "If Winter herent in such an undertaking. Comes." Taken from the Biblical Other articles on Chinese subjects lines, "For if the trumpet gives an are: "The Hand and its Function uncertain sound," the story in Chinese Characters" by Fr. Finn, S.; "The Teaching of Chi- 0.B.E.,; "Why China has Produced nose to Europeans" by H. R. Wells,
no Selence" by P. H. Liang, B.A. and "Some Notes on Pronunciation" by Mak Sul-pat.
one with interest over each page. It deals with a man who was never certain of things. The style of the book is the same as the writer's splendid volumes,
John Buchan
John Buchan giveś A vivid description of adventure in South
Education in Egypt America, with mystery in it, In Professor Robertson contributes "The Courts of the Morning" an interesting study of "Education (Hodder and Stoughton 7/6). in Egypt" (and Miss J. F. Looker Among Buchan's well known books writes about "Nursery Schools in are "Thirty Nine Stopa" and. "The England." Miss Looker has had Three Hostages."
personal experience in these schools Dealing with a certain up-to-date and writes with authority of the kingdom of Europe is Dornford Inestimable good, mental, moral, and Yates's theme in "Blood Royal," physical, which they do for the (Hodder and Stoughton 7/6) which children of the very poor.
Her Is quite intriguing.
Another Edgar Wallace thriller Forster's on Rachel McMillan who paper is supplemented by Professor is "Red Aces" (Hodder and Staugh- was the ploneer of nursery schools. ton 7/6). This is a real mystery gripper." It is impossible not to
In Persia be thrilled by Edgar Wallace," says
Professor Simpson's entertaining the attractive cover.
and scholarly lectura on Xenophon's For humour and laughs there is Cyropaedia by here reproduced and P. G. Wodehouse's "Summer Light gives a sketch of the system of: ing" (A. Herbert Jenkins)-an education in Persia in the 6th cen- amusing and really good long story tury B.C. There is a atimulating
"Shudders". (Hutchinson) a new paper on "The Moral Alm of the. mystery book, by several well School" by G. W. Reave, B.A.; known writers, is compiled by Lady G. A. C. Herklots, Ph.D., B.Sc. dis Cynthia Asquith, -
cusses "The Study of Biology" and George H. Birmingham's book shows the importance to everyone "The Major's Candle Sticks" 18 of an adequate knowledge of the amusing, with a little mystery.
subject,
poem "supposed to be Written by One at the Point of Death." there is a lovely moment of trauquillity: Glue me my Scallop shell of quiet, My staffe of Faith to wolke vpon, My Scrip. of Joy, Immortall diet, My bottle of saluation:
and thus Ile take my pilgrimage. My Gowne of Glory, hopes true gage, Perhaps (says T.P.'s weekly) it was in such tranquility that Raleigh met his end.
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Southern on the Girl Guido Move classmates, who returned said blow A book which is thoroughly mysterious 18 Sir Arthur Conan ment will gain more friends and in kind, is said to have been the Doyle's four volumes on Sherlock supporters for the work to which cause of a hasty decision on the part she is so dovoted. Finally, there of the young king's diplomatic ad- Homes. They constitute "A study.
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