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MAIL REVIEWS.
"The
EMPRESS EUGENIE.
by
A
on
by additional information in the chapter on the Kuomintang. detailed list of military unite September 30. 1930, is also given.
The opium survey has been com Filed by the Editor from question- naires returned from all parts of China.
Among the documents in the new issue are: the Convention for the the Rendition of Welhaiwel. Sino-American Aviation Contract. the now Copyright and Insurance Laws, the new French, Japanese, Greek and Treaties, the Agreements for the Rendition of the
Czechoslovakian
Britleh Conces-
mother with superb generosity for gave, and whose pardon she beg- ged from her friend Queen Victoria.
and The charity, loyalty, and courage of this great- Eugenie," Empress
hearted lady would alone make her Robert Sencourt: Benn 21-1 one of the most appealing figures The Empress Eugenic, whose in history, but when to them are
alons at Amoy and Chinking, and life Edith Wharton so aptly called added the high-spirited and com- "the last of the fairy tales," is one bative qualities she displayed, for the Reorganisation of the of the most attractive and tragic (though sometimes disastrously as Shanghai Provisional Court, the personalities of any age. This in the case of Mexican affairs), the British Boxer Indemnity Agree high-born Spanish girl, whose brilliant play of her wit, the ment, and the documents relating beauty was so bright and rare, sat irresistible grace and modesty to the Sino-Russian railway dis- for a few brief years on the which were perhaps her greatest pute. proudest throne in Europe, and charm the reader will feel with the
chapters like her predecessor Mario An author an undisguised and wolo- Labour, the Kuomintang, and the' toinette with whom she felt so hearted admiration of the Empresa. National Government have been strong an affinity, was rejected by Mr. Sencourt has no need to follow rewritten and brought up-to-date. her subjects and driven from her what has been called the Cocktail Appendices include the new Im- kingdom. More fortunate than School of historians. His scholar-port tariff, the latest report of the the wife of Louis XVI, she escaped ship, balance, and imaginative Minister of Finance, the new Con- with her life, and spent her re-sympathy have given us what must maining years in exile, at Farn be one of the finest blographies of
few faithful the century. borough, where friends and servants stayed with her till her death.
a
This is the first authoritative blography, of the "Tragic Em- press" and its writing has been made possible by the author's care- ful and diligent research Into sources hitherto inaccessible, the archives of the Duke of Alba, and unpublished letters of Queen Vic- toria, as well as into the mass of state papers in London, Paris, Vienna, and Madrid.
His
CHINA YEAR BOOK.
Latest Editions Thoroughly Revised.
Publication of the "China Year Book" has been transferred from Tientsin to Shanghal
Complaints of the bulk of recent editions led the new publish- ers to attempt to reduce the size. This has been effected by a new style of setting, which without un- duly sacrificing legibility, has re- duced the volume from nearly 1,300 pages to under 750 while ac- tually increasing the amount of letter press.
Mr. Sencourt has welghed all the evidence impartially and has been able to correct several false Impressions given by previous his torians of the Empress's policy and conduct in the orises which led to Sedan and the revolution. book is that of a scholar who is
The book has been thoroughly also an artist. He has the uncom revised, and most chapters havo mon and happy gift of combining been completely rewritten. exciting and swift narrative with eral new chapters have been add acute analysis of character, and ed, including these dealing with motive, as well as exactness and imports and opium, clarity in dealing with facts.
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A. H. CROOK, O.BE. M.A. W. KAY, MA
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The Who's Who of prominent Chinese has been expanded to in- clude a number of blographies of Chinese men and women who have come to the front during the past two years.
The detailed list of contents at the beginning of the volume, and the comprehensive index at the end, should enable the reader to The latest available Anuncial, find any. fact or figure for which This Life is more absorbing railway, postal, and other statistics he is seeking with the minimum than most novels. For Eugenie's are included, and as usual every of time and trouble.
The Book has been edited by Mr. tragedy was not only that of an effort has been made to secure, empress; it was also that of Every and reproduce textually, all docu-H. G. W. Woodhead, C.B.E., who woman, from her first romance and ments of permanent importance, founded the "China Year Book" in cruel disillusionment, through the Including the Treaties, and Agree. 1912, in association with Mr. H. T Montagu Bell, and has been 2018 years of marriage to sickly, ments concluded. during 1930. difficult and unfaithful husband, f The fullest possible informatior Editor since 1919.
A the terror and shame of the defeat on China's foreign and domestic. This is the thirteenth issue of work of reference which is now and revolution, to the crowning | loans, and Currency Problems has agony of the death of her only and been compiled by Mr. E. Kann, accepted as the standard author, Ity on China throughout the world, beloved son, the Prince Imperiul an acknowledged, authority. He was the centre of her life, and The Army and Navy Chanter and quotations from which figure cofitaina Harrative of the Civil in nearly every salons article War of 1980 which is amplified and publication on Chi
he died through the cowardice of British officer, whom the
ROUND
THE
"B.-P." AND HOOVER.
21st Birthday of Boy Scouts of America.
The Boy Scouts of America, whose Coming-of-age Celebrations
following
from Lord concluded in February, received the Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout of the World:
message
My Brother Scouts of America At your coming of age you can look back with some content on the years of your infancy and gradual growth to the standing you enjoy to-day..
While your corporate body has been growing in size your spirit and morale have proportionately increased.
You can now realise that you have attained your majority- your maturity,
This does not mean that you can therefore sit down with hands folded across your abdomen and say, "I'm through-all's well."
Not a bit of it. -
CAMP FIRE
This memorial of a small effort from which have sprung great re- sults stands to-day at Gilwell Park, the Scoutmasters Training Centre in Epping Forest.
BOY SCOUTS TACKLE UNEMPLOYMENT.
OUR
LADIES' TAILORING
DEPARTMENT
undertakes to execute orders FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles with
in 16 hours.
(Essex) LOVELY SILK STORE
Among the many schemes for Scouting, too, has come of age. assisting the unemployed, that car- Through twenty-one years it has ried out at the Hedingham Employ-
Training Camp summoned Youth to the great ad- ment venture of lofty living. As the under the auspices of The Boy Scout twenty-first year marks Youth's Association by Miss Majendie, the Commissioner for formal passage to legal maturity, Scout District
District of Essex, is so the coming of the twenty-first Stanstead year of the Boy Scout Movement proving satisfactory. in America marks its entry into
Under the scheme, three shifts
time making good.
an era of maturer service. I of men, 52 in all, have been trained found employment; 90 per hope it may continue through and years of increasing usefulness to cent. of them. up to the present release that deep love of humani- ty, that eagerness to make life fuller and sturdier, that is the very core of democracy itself. The Boy Scouts of America com- menced in 1910, two years after the Scout Movement had originated in Great Britain as a result of Lord Baden-Powell's experimental camp on Brownees Island, Dorsetshire, the previous Summer.
The men are recruited from the most distressed districts in North- East of England; the first shift con- sisted of young men from mining districts, the majority of whom had never worked in their lives; the second shift covered a wider field of men from industry as well as min- ing, while the third shift has aimed at combining the removal of a man from bad environment and giving him a chance to make good. Many taken from the of the men were roads. The
not Scouts.
were
A good turn performed by a newspaper boy, a member of a Lon don Troop of Boy Scouts, was the immediate cause of the Scout Move
selected [men ment spreading to America, where, during its twenty-one years' exist
The Camp constate of an Army ence, more than 5,000,000 boys and men are stated to have been identi- hut and the men are organised on fied with it. At the end of last Rover',Scout lines under a Scout- November the total active strength of the Boy Scouts of America was given as 886,395,
You have put your foot on the high rung at the beginning of the ladder and can now with confid- ence and ease trot up the further steps which lead to higher suc- Glance back at the pro-
The Unknown Scout. cesses.
The London Scout, who brought gress you have made: see what. you have accomplished in the America's 5,000,000 boys and men difficult first. years, in which you into contact with Scouting,. is un- were handicapped by war and known. other conditiona
His good turn is, however, on And then look forward and see record, thanks to the late Mr. Wii- the field of opportunity which lies Ilam Boyce of Chicago, to whom it before you. Visualise on the was done... basis of the results obtained what! you may achieve in the next twenty-one years working at the same rate.
Then, up sleeves and tackle the game for a game it is-with confidence, with hepe and with good cheer.2 balmon &
God speed you In your task. President Hoover wrote:
Boyhood is the period of: de- velopment. By the time he comes of age a boy has acquired, in body, brains, and character, the tools he must use in life: His work and play, his love of camp ing and knowledge of nature, his courage, his sportsmanship, his desire to serve his fellow men, have become a part of him, of what he will always be..:
Mr. Boyce had lost his way in Fleet Street, London, when the boy, wearing the Scout arrowhead badgo in his coat lapel, guided him to his West End destination.
the
By declining reward on ground that he was a Scout and was only performing his day's good deed, the boy drew Mr. Boyce's attention to what. Scouting was, and after Lord Baden-Powell, interviewing Mr. Boyce introduced the Scout Movement Into America.
master and, with the co-operation and of local residents, garages others, undergo a three months' training a chauffeurs, chauffeur- gardeners, chauffeur-grooms, foot- men, housemen and stewards. Em- ployment is found for them at the conclusion of the course, and so far the applications from employers have exceeded the number of men trained.
MAJOR MALCOLM SPEIR.
the
The official bulletin of County of Glasgow Boy Scout Council expressed worm apprecia- tion of the services of Major Mal- colm Speir.
Major Malcolm Speir recently left the district after 18 years' work for the Boy Scouts of Scot- land to take up an important rall way post in Ireland.
Major Malcolm Speir is widely On July 4, 1926, the Prince of Wales, Chief Scout for Wales, ac- known throughout the Scout Move- cepted from the American Ambas-ment as one of the leading work- sador on behalf of the Boy Scouts ers in the Rover Scout branch the bronze (Boy Scouts of 17 years and over). of Great Britain
of the Rover statuette of a buffalo, as a tribute He was chairman "To the Unknown Scout," from the Scout Moot at Auchengillan, near
Glasgow, last year. Boy Scouts of America.
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