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A VALUABLE JOURNAL FOR LOCAL GARDENERS.
JULIUS CAESAR.
["Caesar," by Mirko Jelusick; George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, 10/0 net.] The Great Roman historian, Mommsen, Bums
up Caesar in these words, "This unique man; to describe whom seems so easy and is yet so infinitely difficult."
such permanent traces
Few figures in history have, left
on after
times.
Alexander may have had more towns called after him; Napoleon, more corpses to his credit; but Caesar has his engraved on moro imperial thrones, and has left a deeper impress on the languages of Europe.
["Ocensional Notes of the Hong
Kong Horticultural Society,' -edited and largely contributed
by Dr. G. A. C. Herklots.]
This paper
fills a very great want in the Colony. Tutcher's Gardening in Hong Kong is prac- tically the only available guide to gardeners here. and much has been discovered since it was written, and moreover it has never The present life gives a wonder- pretended to be comprehensive of fully realistic picture its whole subject. Its size and price forbids this.
"Occasional Notes," judging from its frat issue, will have a full account of several subjects useful to gardeners and giving us jknowledge which we could not find
in any other book.
There are special articles on sweel peas, rosca, carnations, dahlias, gerbern, amaryllis, gladioli and pansies, for which we are indebted inrge- ly to Mr. R. A. Nicholson, of Victoria, B.C., a well known pre- vious Hong Kong resident, and a very sound article on solls which Jevery gardener should read, if only to realise the importance of lime
as the first essential to a satisfactory bed of soil, and to dispel the theory, held by every ordinary fa-wong, that no plant will grow in a bed, but only in a pot full of an expensive imported manurial cocktail.
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Colossus of the Western. World. The book is rather a revivification than a history in the academical There are no authorities quoted or referred to, and at al- most every page we find ourselves asking, "What is the storical evidence for this?" or, "is there any documentary proof of that?"
One of the most important and dramatically Interesting issues in this whole story is the part which Brutus is made to play. To the present reviewer, at all events, the theory taken in this, book is quite new.
the boy:"Mark woll, my son the law comes before everything. If anyone infringes it, oppose him with all your might, even if he is your own father. But always without a feeling of revenge."
It was the shadow of the great nemesis.
Pro+
would all a book in itself.
The question of imperiallam
bably every reader of the history of Caesar will wonder if he ever realised all the ramifications and implications resulting from the doctrine. Perhaps he did. To our author, at all events, he perceived "that he who deprives mankind of its Inmost self is its enemy; that
it is precisely to the noblest that
compulsion, however beneficent it may seem, is the worst of all tor tures; that the accomplishment of his task would drive out of its world the very thing by which it lived: freedom."
At the very close of his lifo Cæsar says, "Whatever may be- fall has been appointed from the beginning. Only madmen sock to take arms against an insuperable destiny."
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By far the greatest gift of this issue is the description of various species of Thunbergia that can be grown in Hong Kong-most of us know the Black-eyed Susan (Thunbergia alata), but few know the other by sight or by name, and knowledge of hardy peren- ninle is worth a great deal more to the boauty and a garden than all the prizes in flower shows for Brutus is an illegitimato son of forced annuals and faltered mar- Caesar by Servilla with whom Wrote Novel in Hotel Lounge, rows. This part of the book is Cesar had had a liaison in his
Her home was in British Colum very well illustrated in line, 50 early life. And though of course bin, that subscribers
near the Moresby Island may colour the Brutus is ignorant of this fact which was named after her grand- plates, when they have run the it adds intense poignancy and father. original to earth.
piquancy to the plot against But she was often in Britain, and, Caesar's life, and to the dying (says a correspondent in a Home words of his father, "Et tu, Brute." paper), last time I saw her she was❘ WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW
The deep poignancy of all this sitting In the lounge of a Kensing
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is heightened by the words of ad-ton hotel writing away at a novel, vice altered by Caesar in an earlier but quite ready to lay down her scene of his life.
pon and talk in her quietly enter- taining way.
A Brene is depicted in which Caesar visits Servilia and her little son Marcus when the boy is about ten years old, in which he saya to
THE CAMP
SCOUTS' FAREWELL TO 'LORD ATHLONE.
FIRE
L.C.C. SCOUT WORKERS' GATHERING.
beld
Three thousand Boy Scouts Over 200 Boy Scouts and Scout rallied in front of the City Hall, workers employed in the service of Johannesburg, to bid the Earl of
the London County Council Athlone farewell before he left their third Annual Exhibition and South Africa. Lord Athlone, who, Camp Fire at the County Hall re- in addition to being Governor-cently. General, was Union Chief Scout, inspected the Posse of Welcome and took the salute from the Scouts and Cuba as they marched past with waving colours and totems.
Subsequently a bi-lingual service, with prayers and addresses given alternately in Afrikaans and Eng Heh, was held.
Lord Athlone presented three decorations at the conclusion of the Service, Including the Order of the Silver Wolf to District Commis- sloner Kenneth Fleischer, the Becre- tary of the South Africa Scout Council.
Mr. F. H. Hodgkinson, Acting Divisional Commissioner, on behalf of the Scouts bade farewell to the Governor-General, thanking him for his interest which had enshrined him in the bearts of the people and saying, "We Scouts feel that we are bidding farewell not only to our | Chief but also to à friend whom we have learnt to love and whom we can. afford to lose."
Mr. Hodgkinson hoped that the Governor-General, like the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, would be so drawn by the great spaces and call of the veldt that he would not rent satisfied unless he paid them poriodical visits,
Lord Athlone, who was received with round upon round of, cheering, said it was with the sincerest regret he contemplated his severano as Union Chief Scouts and in refer- ting to the alms and aspirations of Scouting. In South Africa ha said. "It Is Indeed the - first daty of Scouting in South Africa to aim at the Inquication among the youths of this country of a spirit of unity snd comradeship, and it should be the first care of every local organ-
Those present represented 26 Boy Scout Groups from all parts of London and the Suburbs. In addi- tion to Scout demonstrations of rope-spinning, the audience were entertained by a sword-swinging | net, a sketch by the 18th Lewisham Group of Boy Scouts and Stephen Jack with his ocarina and yells in his "One-Man Concert Party."
Community singing round the Camp Fire" with a yarn and Camp Prayers led by Padre Pat Leonard, the chief Anglican Chaplain at the Coming of Age Jamboree, concluded the proceedings.
I know at least one other woman novelist who does her work in hotels-and at all hours.
·
FILM STAR.
O'Brien High In Praise of
Manila Troops.
Scout Commissioner George O'Brien, screen idol vielting Manila, reviewed the Boy Scouts on March 2, afternoon at the Luneta reviewing stand in compliance with general order No. 1, issued to him by a Filipino Eagle Scout, upon his re- turn from the southern cruise. O'Brien cancelled hia engagements in order to fulfil the order of the Boy Scouts.
The parade was attended by 15 boy scout troops from the different educational centres including the Ateneo, La Salle, San Beda, Deaf and Dumb, and the Y.M.C.A. boy, Scouts.
O'Brien was highly pleased with the efficiency shown by the boy scouts during the parade. The La Salle Sea Scouts attracted the at-
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Messages from Duke of Connaught and Lord Baden-Powell.
In the absence overges of the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, Lord Hampton, Chief Commissioner of The Boy Scouts' Association, presided over the annual general meeting of the Council of the Boy Scouts' Association held at the Imperial Headquarters..
H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, President of the Association, sent the following message:-
"I send you all my warmest greetings.
I rejoice to hear that the returns for last year show a steady increase in the numbers and efficiency every- where. Most especially is this the case in India, where the increase this year has been 25,000 in spite of the unrest and local difficulties. In the Punjab alone there have been more Scouts in camp than ever be fore, and more Scoutmasters have gone through a course of training, all of which speaks of the right in the spirit being in existence Movement there.
On the whole it appears to me that the Commissioners and the Scoutmasters under them are work-
tention of O'Brien for their smarting with better spirit than ever. Among the exhibits were a set uniform and he asked the Sea
both at home and overseas, and Troop of Boy Scouts which were of shows by the 10th Mitcham Scouts to pose for a "shot" with therefore I look for further develop- ments in the Movement in the near future. especially valuable as showing the of Scouts can undertake.. manifold activities that one Group
1.HQ. GOOD WISHES TO "B.-P."
The
him.
A big crowd met O'Brien at Pier 8 and gave him a warm reception. A parade of decorated cars start ing from the pier took him to Fox Theatre.
The Boy Scout parade and review in honour of the popular screen idol was almost marred by a big crowd who mobbed him for autographs. Even his handkerchief was snatch ed from his pocket and torn to pieces by his admirers who wanted a remembrance from O'Brien at any
Imperial Headquarters (H.Q.) of the Boy Scouts' Asso. ciation sent a farewell message to Lord Baden-Powell when he called with Lady Baden-Powell for his oversen tour of New-Zealand, Aus- | cost. tralia and South Africa. The man-
age was:
Best of luck. while overseas, In the far Antipodes,
LORD BADEN-POWELL,
out under the direction of Sr Alfred Pickford.
The increase of 66,000 on last year's numbers is in itself gratify- Ing, but still more notable is the. fact that in spite of the political unreat the numbers in India have gone up 25,600 and now amount to 161,000,
It must be a matter of great pleasure to all of us that Sir Percy Everett has been honoured by the King for his services to the Move- ment both because it was recorded to our first Scout officer and hardest worker, and also as a proof that our Movement has the sympathy and approval of His Majesty.
With such encouragements our The annual report of the Execu-prospects for the coming year are tive Committee will show that pro particularly bright, and I sincerely isation to encourage the realisationgress during the past year has been hope that our dolugs' of the' past"
Is the wish that's sent to you By all the blokes at I.HQ.
among Scouts that they hold, with out any distinction of race, the proud title of South Africans,”
In regretting his absence, the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, wrote:
satisfactory in all our branches and twelve months and our plans for that future development is being, the next will meet with the syproval systematically planned and carried of the Council."