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WORLD OF BOOKS.
METHUEN'S BOOKS. European movements of the nine- and
I saw
the whole eighteen teenth century; with France and hundred of them reel to one side as her successive "Revolutions"; with if a shock from without had shaken
History of the Vikingthe unification of Germany under the hall."
Folk.
the Hohenzollerns; with the Italian Risorgimento Immediately asso- ciated with the work of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour; with the successive phases of the "Eastern Question"; with the "Expansion of Europe" and the scramble among the Great Powers of Europe for Colonial Empirea; with the antece dents of the World War, and, very briefly, with the War itself and the Peace Settlement.
"A History of the Vikings." By
T. D. Kendrick, M.A., Assist ant Keeper in the Department of British and Medieval Anti- quities at the British Museum. With 16 half-tone and 12 line Illustrations, and 28 Maps. Demy 8vo. 188, net.) This book is an illustrated and documented history of the Viking folk of Norway, Sweden and Den- mark. It describes their antece- dents and the founding of the three Viking nations; it recounta the ravages and colonial enter. prises of the Vikings abroad, and deals in turn with the several areas of the gigantic stage where- on their adventures were played, a cornor of the world that stretched from North Cape to North America, from Greenland to the Gold Horn.
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["A History of Europe: 1494-1618." By Prof. A. I. Grant. With
AN INTRODUCTORY
HISTORY by
A. H. CROOK, 0.9.E., M.A. W: HAY, M.A.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc. PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mail Offices.
AFTER A DICKENS READING.
TEST FOR AUTHORS. F
Books to be Published Anonymously.
literature. A book called "U.S.A. with Music" has been published with no, author's name and no pseudonym as part of an effort to induce the public to buy books for what they are and nat for the name of their authors.
And sometimes the testimony was still more direct-- Can authors "become modent] went far beyond adulation and all | enough to fapue their works anony- such vulgarity. Such was the case mously?
An effort is being made in at Belfast, where a man grasped his hand and begged that he would | France to check the abuse of what. "do me the honour to shake hands is called "personality, mongering"" Mather Dickens and God bless you, in sir; not only for the light you've been to me this night, but for the light you've been in mee house air (and God love your face!) this many ค year!"—and again in York, "when a lady whose face I had never seen stopped me.... In the street, and said to me, Mr. Dickens, will you let me touch the hand that has filled my house with many friends 7"-Edward Wagen
Man knecht, in "The
Charles Dickens."
NOVEL OF THE SEA.
This novel recalls The Nigger of the Narcissus, says the Manchester Guardian reviewing Old Ship; By Lennox Kerr, London: Constable and Co. The resemblance, the paper adda is quite superficial, lying merely in the facts that the story In both books is the history of a
and that both are Voyage
much more studies in psychogy than tales of adventure. In the writing, in the incidents, and, above all, in the point of view there is no likeness
The whatever.
The movement, it is now learned, is spreading to London. "U.S.A. with Musle" is a satire on Ameri- can life, and other books are to follow.
"Many British authors of note are showing a keen interest in the project," said one of the promoters in London recently. "After all, how many people know who built the Tower or Westminster Abbey or who wrote 'God Save the King'?) It is the work that counts, not the name, In this new venture an onymity will not be a game of find- ing out who wrote the book. The authorship of a book will not be revealed. Our chances of success depend on the quality of the books."
In Paris the books are known as In the "Carrefour Editions." Britain the agents are Simpkin, Marshall.
Maps. Domy 8vo. 158. net.] The aim of this volume is to give a readable account of the various movements in Europe which to- gether make up the Era of the Re- The development of formation. the great western powers-France, Spain, and Germany-is carefully
Sometimes, to be sure, the ad- sketched; but the smaller powera, miration and the adulation were auch as Savoy, and Sweden and wearying, or even annoying. He Switzerland, have also a good deal could stand a good deal,, however
spirit behind of attention given to them, and the for he loved adulation-as we all Conrad's work is ironic, romantle, by a sickly and cunning wretch states forming the eastern frontier do-and his habit of regarding and, one might add, affectionate; named Stevens, grows till it attains o Europe are not neglected. The hurannity somewhat tenderly, even there is neither affection ΠΟΥ
the proportions of a homicidal, ob- book is divided into three parts. when it was absurd, not cynically į romance in Mr. Kerr's presentation session. Captain Busby's nerve Part I deals with the years down or with a feeling of superiority, as of the crew of the Hillgrove. With fails in the strange and silent duel to the Peace of Cateau-Cambresis the average intellectual of to-day one or two exceptions these men are that ensues; the whole morale of in 1558. In Part II certain toples, has trained, himself to regard it--not even competent sailors, while the ship-never at the beat very auch as the development of the hust have helped him through the captain has gone soft-"No ; good-is infected by it; and in a Turkish
the
Counter- many uncomfortable moments. Oc- lotua berry so dangerous," Mr. Kerr gloomy, troubled atmospère petty Reformation, Russia, the influence casionally, to be sure, the electric says, "a a Merchant Service jealousies, spites, and treacheries of the New World on the Old, are current of sympathy between the master mariner's berth:"
The flourish. The men seem to be on treated continuously from the beactor and the audience would be most important figures in the the verge of mutiny; and then In ginning of the period-to-the-end severed, and then he was miserable drama-are-the dandified-Captain_inely conceived and quite the drama Part III continues the story to the and helpless. But when he had an Busby-known to both officors and unexpected scene,
The Dixon, a culminates.
vivid real- death of Henry IV of France, and audience like the one at Glasgow crew as Nancy-and the eve of the Thirty Years War. "And at the end of Dombey powerful, almost inarticulate farm ism
the book obviously yesterday afternoon, in the cold labourer, whose frat voyage it is. springs from personal experience. ["A History of Europe: 1815-1923." light of day, they all got up, after Dixon is a guileless creature, but and that experience must have been By Sir John Marriott, M.A.,a short pause, gentle and simple, he is of the lowest grade of Intel- painful. Certainly no picture of Honorary Fellow, formerly and thundered and waved their
slum life could be less suggestive of Fellow, of Worcester College, hats with such astonishing heart!-
glamour. But the crew Oxford. With 11 Maps, Demy neas and fondness that, for the
Hillgrove live, the writing ia terse 8vo. 158. net.3.
first time in all my public career,
and vigorous, the whole thing well This book deals with the great they took me completely off my legs
done.
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ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
SCOUTS RETURN FROM
VISITING RED INDIAN.
GIRL GUIDES DIARY.
1st Hong Kong, Pack-872 Peak Fridays, 3.30.
ligence and readily influenced. Suffering from a sense of injusties that is partly fancled and partly real, he conceives a grudge against his captain, which, carefully fanned
department is known as the Special Tests Department, in deference to the special request of the Scouts concerned, who were anxious that the title of their special branch should bear no reference to the
fact that they are handicapped by infirmities of any kind. Sir Mon- tagu Burrows, who is the Head- quarters Commissioner for this Special Tests Department, recently published a booklet, "Scouts with A Handicap" (1- The Scout Shop), dealing with the expanding work among this class
The Boy Scouts forming the Paul Coze Commission of the Scouts de France bave arrived | days, 8.30. home from their mission to Canada. 3rd Hong Kong-Quarry Bay The Commission left France for School-Mondays, 9.00.
Hong Kong-St. Canada on June 28 with the object School-Mondays; 8.30.
2nd Hong Kong Pack-Head- of boys. House Gardet-Tues- quarters'
of earrying out
researches into survivals of Red Indian lore.
4th
Paul's
5th Hong Kong-Balllion School Thursdays, 2.15.
6th Hong Kong-Victoria British School Fridays, 8.30
by
of
1st Kowloon-Central
of School-Tuesdays, 3.30.
Mons. Paul Coze was given
the Commission of charge the Natural History Museum Paris. He chose four Scouts special aptitude to accompany him. On July 19 the members of the Commission reached Calgary (Alberta) where they received welcome from the 10th Calgary Group of Boy Scouts. Here they were attached to the Stoney In dians who were holding their year- jy Pow.waw.
British
2nd Kowloon-Diocesan Girls' School-Tuesdays, 8.00.
3rd Kowloon-Gun Club Hill- Fridays, 6.45.
GUIDE COMPANIES. 1st Hong Kong-Headquarters* House Garden-Tuesday, 445.
2nd Hong Kong-St. Paul's School-Wednesday, 2.80,
The Commissioner began to col- lect for the Museum robes, head-Wednesday, 8.30. dresses and other articles and to
ard Hong Kong-Belillos School
4th Hong Kong-Mut "Fong
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record songs peculiar to the tribe. School-Friday, 4.15. With the help of the Red Skin Chiefs the Commission was able to reconstruct several war scenes, dances and hunts as the Indians used to perform them before the advent of the white man. These scenes were filmed for the use of the Museuin. ́..
5th Hong Kong Italian Convent Wednesday, 4.15. 1st Kowloon-Central School-Friday, 3.80.
2nd Kowloon-Diocesan Girls | School-Friday, 4.15.
After visiting the Piegans "of
COASTWISE Brocket and the Crees of Hobbena
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and collecting records and articles of their primitive life and after having filmed a huge herd of bison and wapiti at Wainwright, the Commission arrived at Big River, whence it set out in canoes for: lle de la Crosse, where it camped for a month,
Throughout the travels the Com mission Paul Core was hospitably
Brd Kowloon St. Andrew's Church Hall Thursday, 8.00,
Rangers →→Helena May Institute.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
Success comes in fallure in can'ts.
CRIPPLED BOYS AS SCOUTS.
Soven crippled boys have become
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