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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MAIL REVIEWS.
Hilaire Belloc Criticised.
were
Stranger, if passing by you soek to
learn
What man was he whose ashes fill
this urn,
Know:, there's a ghost remembers
now by Styx
mands him to exploit the re- If Mr. Thompson contindes to sources of Nature for his own produce versa we hope he will benefit. It was undoubtedly under produce, poems such as "Valetta the impetus of this teaching that from the Sea," "Philosophy," "In- the inhabitants of an arid countercession," "The Water Findera", "The try spread over vast tracts of "Crowning Mercies," and
We quote the last- {"Richelieu," by Hilaire Belloc; territory in search of exploiting Epitaph."
Benin, 21/-1
Nature, developed the sciences of mentioned one in fall. Chemistry, Mathematics, 48- This book would be vastly im-
tronomy and Medicine and Sur- proved
six hundred sep-
And gery,
established Univer tences (ie. about two per page)
sities to which even Christian excised. Nearly every one of
scholars repaired for instruction. these refers to one or other of two things, or, as Mr. Bellac viz. that the would aver, facts: Reformation destroyed European civilisation and culture, and that in Protestant countries power was transferred from the kindly hands of Kings to those of the new gentry who had grown rich on Church loot. Such raiteration makes Mr. Belloc's claim uncon- vincing. His claim is, as usual, that humanity's only hope of Elysium is to place itself ander the aegis of the Vatican. But too Hilaire methinks
protests
much, and his ery of "Wolf" is iikely to be unheeded. How can he or any thinking person desire a return to mediaeval conditions
of dirt, disease, nepotism, intellec- tual bondage, mutilution of know ledge. blight of ecclesiastica! tyrunny, etc.? As well sigh for the days of Solutrian man and his flints.
Genius and Duplicity.
He marched with Maude, was with
the few who first
The embattled sandhills of Samara
burst,
And once hit Faulkner o'er the
ropes for six.
Previous generations, of Euro. peana gained their meagre know- ledge about the Islamic religion from translations from the pens of their own countrymen who in many cases were Christian priests hostile to the religion of Islam. The translation under review is by a born Muslim who has devot-worth ed over 20 years of his life to
The
the study of Religion and to the translation of the Quran. result of his labours is a transla- tlon unequalled by any previous efforts. Not only is it a lucid rendering from the original lan- guage, but it is accompanied by a very exhaustive commentary and copious notes as well as a very valuable introduction, the
last of which may be said to put the real teachings of the Quran In a nutshell.
Quotes Chapter and Verse. Unlike many previous transia- tors of European origin, Muham- mad Ali does not make mere state
It is a pity to see an author with|ments, but quotes chapter and such a style and of such wide verse for everything he says in
introduction of over reading fritter his talents: for we his
100
The poem "Intercession" is also
quoting:
three
the
A
months' drought, churches called for rain; The bishops made new forms of
prayersin vain.
We tried a cup-match then; Heaven,
uninvoked,
char-a-bancs
Relented: and the
were soaked.
"THE RUBAIYAT." Romantic Find of One
of Earliest Books.
There is something romantic about the finding, in a second- hand bookshop in Calcutta, of one of the earliest copies of the Im- mortal "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam, that must stir the pulse
como
regard sixty per cent. of Belloc's pages. He deals with such zub-
of the least bibliophile of men. 18 the "Status historical writing as waste. Much jects
of The discovery was made public "Life after Death." of this book is brilliantly done Woman,"
At the last monthly meeting of Heaven and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and really informative, and from the "Nature, of
clear idea of the Hell," "Tolerance" and it we get a
"Man when it was announced that the genius and duplicity of the great and His Place in Nature" as Feraian scholar who had Cardinal. Mr. Belloc marshals they are taught in the Quran. It into possession of the book had his facts with skill and exposes has for centuries been a charge been generous enough to present them clearly, but all too often. against Islam that it teaches In it to the library of his village in and just as we are beginning to tolerance, denies a soul to Woman Bihar. It is improbable that it like him, he spoils the effect by and relegates her to a very sub-1 will be allowed to rest there, for His treat-ordinate role in the social struc-although it cost only sixty rupees, some propagandist tag.
That such charges ment of Gustavus Adolphus is, we ture.
are its worth will run into hundreds
think; unfair. The Swedish King baseless will abundantly become of pounds when collectors come who (even our author admits !t)clear on a perusal of the volume to know of the existence of this!
under review.
saya
seems
to
in
of
was a genius, was no mere puppet
more than four hundred year-old For All Human Needs. dangling on strings pulled by
manuscript. It would be interest. Richelieu. We are as certain as After reading this translation ing to know what were its adven- we can be of sach far off events one is left with the feeling that tures during these four centuries, that Gustavus would have enter European Christian translators of but unfortunately the original fiy- ed the arena without French gold, the Quran were either grossly igleaf is missing, and its history especially after the sack and norant of, or were wilfully mis can be traced only as far back as
the true spirit of 1891. frightful massacre of Madgeburg representing.
The tent-maker's son by Tilly, a crime regarding which that book.. The Quran will be Nashipore is easily the best- Mr. Belloc
significantly found to cater to all human needs: known of Eastern philosophers little. It
that to Man's spiritual yearning as
thei among literary circles Richelieu's part in the earlier well as to his worldly desires. stages of the Thirty Years War The volume is published by the West; his spirit was in sympathy with the agnosticism that is is here greatly cxaggerated. Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i-Ishaat-i- France ultimately reaped great Islam, Lahore, and is convenient-typical of the modern outlook, and benefits chiefly because she enters and handsomely bound with a ed fresh after the deaths of valuable Index at the end. Gustavus and Wallenstein when the Imperial troops and finance were more or less exhausted and the Swedes were leaderless. Richelieu blded his time.
A Small Backwater,
-M. A. K.
CHEMICAL FORMULA.
["The Million Pound Deposit," by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Hod- der & Stoughton, 7/6.].
so it comes about, largely be- cause of the beautiful translation of Fitz-Gerald, that old Omar is read and appreciated to-day in | the salons of Chelsea and. the cafee
When of Montmartre.
trail of the European scholars get on to the present manuscript, with its beautiful illustration and illumination, there will be keen silk manufacturing firm depends be hard put to it to retain it.
The success of a great artificial.competition for it, and India will upon a chemical formule, which according to the desires of the founder of the company must not be duplicated. stolen and the chief chemist mur- dered, and, Цв a result the material produced is of an in- ferior quality. The value of the
In "Richelieu", as . his other historical works. Mr. Belloe leaves us cold with his references to the milk white Roman hind and the bloodthirsty Protestant panther. He might as well say "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" for all the proselytizing effect he produces. To-day his position is akin to that of the image makers in Ephesus
There are some girls who are who complained about Paul; and share deteriorate and It appears attractive enough in appearance
But we still read him because of his lucld prose and, perhaps, be- cause he is so provocative.
The formula is Why Some Girls Are Not||
Popular.
Bre
In this twentieth century his pro-
as if the old Arm will be ruined. yet who lack that popularity bests and claims are as futile as were the growls and threats of It would have been, had not the which other girls enjoy. What is
young and
apparently careful the cause?, Simply that they un- these kon makers in the first cen-
Chairman of Directors taken a consciously repel those with whom tury. Evolution will go on in
lone hand in the recovery of the they speak because they spite of Mr. Belloc. His doctrine
missing formula from the hands afflicted with l-amelling breath, is a small backwater in a mighty of the afx financiers who were the result of intestinal Inactivity. stream.
Is your breath as sweat as it responsible for the robbery.
Some time ago Mr. Oppenheim ought to be? If not try Pinkettes wrote Harvery Gerrard's crime, a the dainty little laxatives. They atory of stocks and shares, and ensure daily regularity, diapel It was a great success. In this, sick headaches, flatulence and hia latest book, he has in some bilicus attacks, keep the system respects repeated his ideas but clean, the skin clear and the has made them more thrilling. breath sweet. Your chemist sells Readers of sensational fiction will them, 60 cents per vial, find all that is needed to satisfy In "The Million Pound Deposit" which must rank among the best written by this popular author.
A TRANSLATION 'OF THE KORAN.
["Translation of the Holy Quran," by Muhammad Ali, M.A., LLB]
Anyone interested in religion and desirous to know the true teachings of the Quran will 'And this volume of real value.
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POST WAR POETRY.
STANDARD TIMES
Sunrise And Sunset In Colony
The interpretations of Muham- mad All, who is one of the lead-"The Collected Poems of 'Edward ing lights in the modern Islamic Thompson"; Benn, 10/6 net.] world, are bold and liberal. His These poems may be divided Sunrise and Sunset in Hong inference that the Quran teaches into three lots-juvenilja, war Kong for May (Standard time the theory of Evolution will come poema, and post-war poems. The of the 120th Meridian, East of to even most Muslims as a startl, verses produced since 1919 are Greenwich) are as follow:-
more individualistic, less' stilted, ing revelation.
Another interesting polat "that and much better than the others. May emerges is that God makes man] The early pieces are sixth-formish
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