WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1931.
THE BEAUTY OF CHINESE LITERATURE
Penang Resident Councillor's Address.
ITS GREAT DIFFICULTIES.
Encyclopaedia of 22,877 Volumes.
|
"Our Bane."
The lecturer then read short ex-
THE
which otherwise might have irretrievably periched. Toe Chinese Encyclopaedia in the British Museum was a much less elaborato. work. It consisted of merely 6,109 volumee. The Museum authorities had it rebound in 1.000 volumes and it occupled ten show cases to display it.
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CHINA MAIL.
WEST VIRGINIA
BLUEBEARD."
"Detention Pen" for Victims.
New York, August 31. Singe ble arrest Harry Powers, who is stated to have confessed at Clarksburg to seven murders, has become known as the "West Virginia Bluebeard."
STORE SALESMANSHIP "SLOPPY."
Over-Dressed Windows.
The salesmanship of the average Novelists were included under
store to-day in "definitely sloppy." that same heading, "he said, and he
declared Mr. W. Buchanan-Taylor; mentioned onc-Pu Sung-ling. The
publicity manager of J. Lyons and dates of his birth and death were
Co., Ltd., in an address at the unknown but he took his Bachelor
opening of the National Display As- of Arts degree in 1611, so that he; The Clarksburg police, on opexing | sociation Convention at Portsmouth tourished in the early and middle forty-six letters
reached last month. years of the 17th century. He be | Powera'a address since Friday, "I know there has been a whole- longed to the "provfäcë”of Shan found that all of them were from sale cutting down of stocks, that' Tung and his best known work was love-lorn women, mostly above mid-shops and stores are largely run known as the Lino Chai Chih dle age, who had answered his from the hand of the merchant to familiarly shortened to Liao Chui. Į matrimonial advertisements.
It was a collection of short stories
which
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the mouth of the consumer," he ex- . plained. "But that is no reason why the shopkeeper and the store owner should be so frequently short of the things of which he sells most."
Dynamite was used to-day to At the Penang Rotary Club tiffin Confuctus and Mencius, as record of magic and marvels. It was by last out the concrete floor of the on Tuesday, September 15, Rotarian ed by their disciples. An immense for the most famous of all Chinese windowless garage basement which, commentaries had nevels and was studied by every with its four cells, is said to have P. T. Allen. Resident Councillor, collection of Penang, delivered an address on come into existence dealing with literary person. Speaking from ex- icen used by Powers as a detention
the nine chief classical works, and perience, he said, he found the pen for his victims and also as a Display, he went on, had penal- "Chinese Literature."
style of the book extremely terse, storage plate for his matrimonialised fiself by an orgy of exagger- divided Chinese those commentaries constituted a Roughly he
and owing to the author's prolific correspondence. Powers makes the ated theory. Many display men' literature into four classeн:-The literature in themselves.
Use of rare and unusual characters extraordinary statement that he and wonten appeared to have over- classies; history; philosophy; and
as well as allusions and metaphors, ¦ drove. two women and three looked their mission-to sell goods belles lettres. Up till very recent years the classics were regarded tracts from translations by Pro- it was a book most difficult for children to the garage. basement on so intent were they on the setting one of the most foreigners to attempt to translate.the same day in the same car, and in which the goods were displayed. by the Chinese as the foundation fessor Giles,
"There has been a riot of window of all learning. They were welt- elegant and accurate translators It was a story book full of short after a few days killed them.
Powers, who, is now broken and over-dressing in recent times. With ten in a style extremely terse and from one language into another. stories,
The fourth division, Belles repentant, has been definitely the advent of the German, French, | very allusive, and without the aid Professor Giles had done for the of exhaustive commentaries would literature of China what Professor Lettres, included polite literature charged with murdering two women and American systems many display be absolutely unintelligible to the Jobb had done for the works of generally. He read a poem from and three children. But throughout men and women in Britain have the Book of Odes, not like the one to-day the police, assisted by fifty come to regard window-dressing in Chinese or the
most learned Sophocles.
the terms of extravagant futurism, and scholars of other
Bach The rgt extract the lecturer he read before, full of ratire and convicts, were digging into гасек.
arcasm, but calm and gentle, and muddy meadows and hills round the cubist prodigality." character was an allusion which read out was from the Book of
of Quiet Dells. Other crystallised in itself a whole story History, an 'edict by the King as translated by Dr. Martin it village
rends-
women are known to have corres or a whole history.
against Drunkenness.
ronded with the man with view to securing "a country home end an honest man's love." Powers wrote well, and his serial letter No. 3 WAB full of quotations from writers on love and marriage, de signed to influence the imaginations of weak recipients.~
He also gave a list of the Chinese dynasties which had reign ed since the Han Dynasty, with a short account of the most im portant events during each period.
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Before getting out to say some- thing of the actual records of Chinese literature, he said he would like to give a short list of Chinese dynasties which had reign- The ed since the Han dynasty. first were the six dynustics (A.D. 200 to 600). That was a period of Internecie struggle and Ilterary There was only one stagnation. author of great account who lived in those times. le was a poet. That period coincided with the period in which Buddhism began the to be regarded practically.as religion of China, as apart from
ligion.
re-
The third was the Sung dynasty (A.D. 900-1,200) and that was the Golden Age of Chinese literature which corresponded with the times when the last of the Saxon kings, William the Conqueror and William Rufus, were ruling England.
He next chose an extract from the Book of Odes, the second Classics, but before reading it out took the precaution of saying that he did not subscribe to the senti- ments contained therein.
The ode read:- "A clever man will build a town, A clever woman will pull it down. Though woman's wit is sometimes
heard,
She's really an ill-omened bird; Her long tongue's like a flight of
stairs
Which leads to miserable cares, is not God who mars our lives, That fault is rather with our
wives.
Of all we cannot teach or train
Women and Eunuchs
bane."
are our
(Loud laughter.) The next extract read out was
"A speck upon your ivory fan,
You soon may wipe away. But stains upon your heart
tongue
or
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MR...
GANDHI.
Why He Was Disbarred.
It is reported that when Mr. Gandhi set sail from Bombay for England his passport bore the description: "Disbarred barrister.""
Mr. Gandhi was "called" to the
Remain,, alas for aye." Poetry flourished principally in the Tang dynasty (A.D. 600-900) and perhaps the greatest of all
To Mm. Dorothy Lemke, his fifth Chinese poets belonged to that dynasty. His name was Li Po, or victim, Powers recommended vart Lai Pak in Cantonese. The last ous books on the psychology of sex great poet was Su Tung Po whoand'a leaflet he had written on love Bar of England on June 10, 1891, wonten at the Inner Temple, where he had lived between A.D. 1036 and 1101. and marriage. To several
he wrote: "I never did take any been a student. He was then 22 fancy to slim women, but prefer ayears of age. Subsequently he went woman to be plump."
to South Africa where he cham- pioned the Indians and suffered imprisonment.
FAMED ARTISTES.
To Be Heard in Kowloon on Saturday,
4
оп
M. Leo
The famous trio will bo in
con-
Police armed with machine-guna and tear-gas bombs still patrol the grounds of the prison to prevent Ten thousand persons lynching. visited Quiet Dells to-day, but were excluded from the farm.
Powers meanwhile says that he is prepared to die. When he is not playing cards he sings revival
CHAIR.
*
Remarkable Journey by Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1914 he returned to India, became leader of the non-co-opera-, tion and civil disobedience move ment, and early in 1922 he was sentenced to six years' imprison- meat because of his activities in this campaign. Because of this he
was disbarred by the Benchers of the Inner Temple, his name being
"creened" in the customary way.
MR. BALDWIN'S THREE SECRETARIES.
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In regard to the engagement
Hotel the Peninsula for Confucianism, which was no from the sayings of Confucias, Saturday, on the occasion of the T'ang whose precepts, he said, were re-opening of the Rose Room, of The Recond was The
French Artistes, Mile. hymns. During exemplified not only in the Chris- tivo dynasty (A.D. 600-900). that period the Chinese language tian teachings, but also in the Eleanor Ninon and
tained its full vigour and the teachings of the old philosophers of Mantin, the Manila Bulletin of 100 MILES IN A SEDAN period was remarkable for the Greece. One poet, he remembered, September 24 stated:---
Entertainment of a very
high trans- number of great poets, philosophers wrote a line, which when and for hostility to the religion of lated meant, "From Heaven came order is offered the Manila public the Manila Hotel down a command-know yourself." to-night at the Buddha.
of the Passing on to the second of his Pavillion at the premiere
famous Eleanoro
Mr. Stanley Baldwin has appoint- four divisions of Literature the lec-internationally,
on History.
Nipon and Leo Mantin, and their Among
ed Sir Geoffrey Fry and Mr. lurer dwelt
Filipino accompanist, Pedro Wag
Probably the most remarkablo Geoffrey Lloyd to be his private the most famous historians
Guevara. Szma Ch'ien, who wrote the history
This has been designated 6.8. journey, ever made by a military secretaries (unpaid), and Mr. J. P. or the period between 2097 B.C, and 104 B.C. His work was in 294 President Hoover Night at the hotel leader was taken recently, when L. Thomas to be his assistant
Manilans who Marshal Chiang Kai-shek travelled private secretary '(unpaid).
Mr. Geoffrey Fry was private The Sung dynasty was succeeded volumes and occupied 19 years to in honour of those
on this ship and 100 miles in a sedan chair. are returning
Marshal Chiang, who is directing secretary (unpaid) to Mr. Bonar by the Yuen und Ming dynastics compile it. He quoted a passage
the anti-Communist campaign in Law for about three years, and bo (A.D. 1200-1644). Those were the dealing with the early years of the visitors. Arat periods of decay-decay from Han dynasty, after the times of the peak of excellence which bad the Emperor who destroyed the Manila only for a limited engage- Kiangai, had to make a journey to came private secretary to Mr.
Nanfeng. He was carried the full books, which illustrated that prae- ment. They are on their way back the Government's front line at Baldwin in 1923,
Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, who is pro- reached in the Sung dynasty.
The last of all the dynasties tices widely prevalent in the pre- to the United States, under
of Birmingham, was the Ts'ing dynasty (A.D. 1044- sent times were by no means un-tract to play at the Ritz-Carlton distance from his head-quarters at ejective candidate for the Lady-
of Atlantic City where they proved Linchwan by chair, relays of coolies wood, Division
joined Mr. Baldwin's secretarial 1712) which produced a revival on known in those days of old.
The trip was A division of the class, History, a big hit un their first tour of the being employed.
of an especially staff shortly before, the dissolution a considerable scale of the great!
United States. traditions which awed their origin contained topographical works one
They played before packed houses hazardous nature, since he might of the late Conservative Govern to the literature of the Sung of which was entitled, "The Hill
in the leading hotels and theatres have been attacked by the Comment. He had previously been and River Classic," a work of a dynasty.
Mel Lan- munists at any time. He was ac assistant private secretary (un Division of Literature. great authority which contained in China and Japan.
who had holes fong, considered to be the greatest companied by some of his most re-paid) to Sir Samuel Hoare, who was Roughly he divided Chinese accounts of men
netor China has produced, com-liable, bodyguards, and troops were at that time Minister for Alt. He literature into four classes:-The through their bodies, who
recent political crisis in keeping classics; history; philosophy; and they went out were carried on a plimented them very highly on the stationed at short intervals along played an important part in, tho pole passed through the holes: by character of their work during their the entire distance of 100 miles.
Marshal Chiang has at his head- Mr. Baldwin belles lettres.
in almost hourly only China tour. Up till very recent years the their servants, of men with
Besides being
marvellous quarters a high-powered Anierican touch with the situation. could
Mr. James P. L. Thomas has been classics were regarded by the one arm and one leg, who Chinese as the foundation of all only go out in couples, one leaning dancer, Mlle. Ninon is considered car, equipped with bullet-proof
to be one of the most beautiful glass. His bodyguards always ae-attached to Mr. Baldwin's secret learning. They were written in a against the other.
French actresses on the stage to company him when he motors. Two ariat since the General Election of His Excellency Sir Laurence style extremely terse and very", allusive, and, without the aid of Gulffemard in a speech once quoted day. Part of her former work in of to noter cocked pistole, on 1929, at which he unsuccessfully exhaustive commentarios; would be Pliny, the lecturer said, to illus. Paris was as dancing partner of specially constructed seats at the contested the Llanelly Division absolutely unintelligible to the trate the fact that the governors in the Playboy of Paria, Maurice rear of the car, while others, also Mr. Thomas who is only 28, has Chevalier. Her costumes are the fully armed, stand on the running-been 'adopted as a prospective can- Chinese or the most learned' Asia Minor in those days used to
Each write to the Emperor in Rome to latest creations of Chanell, the boards. On his journey to the didate for the Hereford Division:
Sir Henry B: Betterton (Minister. scholars of other races.
fashion dictator. front, however, he could not use character, was an allusion which send good men
for the P.W.D. famous Parie
Ince to be his principal private: crystallined in itself a whole story "With due humility I will also She has an imposing array of foot-his machine as there were no roads of Labour) has appointed Mr. G. II. or a whole history.
quote," said Rotarian Allen, "from wear from Sommer and Kaufman, worthy of the name...
secretary, and Mr. H. H. Seller to be his assistant private, secretary? The chief classical works were Pliny's Natural History and it is San Francisco. the "Five Classics" which com- to show that he, as well as the an
As Governor and Censtable¦ of prised the Book of Changes; the clent Chinese, believed in the Hill
DEATH OF GEN. GALOPIN. Book of History; the Book of Odes; and River Classic."
the Tower of London, Lord the Book of Rites and Ceremonir ls;
"Mothuen, who was 80 on September
Parls, August 31. The death pccurred in Paris Mra Rachel Swain, of Flitwick, 1, has no chance nowadays to en- Confucius himself was said to writings, arte, and sciences, agri- Beds, who still mailages her own joy Bomb of the ancient perquisites yesterday of Gen. Galopin, aged 78, the constructor of the cupolas at have been the actual author of the culture, medicine, religion, mathe household and garden, has cele of the office. Spring and Autumn' Annals, and the matics, essayists and novelists, brated her 101st birthday. She has. For in former times the Con- Verdun, which proved so success
stablé was entitled to "all the ful in warding off the German atë. cattle which fall off London tacks in 1910. on and a editor and compiler of the Book Under the head of "Sciences" the Bover seen. the sen.
At the outbreak of the war the general was Governor of Nice, and was appointed to command the Paris garrison...
Encyclopaedias,
when
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and the Book of Spring' and'Autumn Under the heading Philosophy,
annals.
the lecturer said, were included
#
Leo Mantin is a product of the Folies Bergere and combines in his acta some of Chevalier's magnetic appeal and the wit of Will Rogers.
LORD METHUEN 86.
of History" and the "Book of Odes." Chinese had been most remarkable Two British girls. Miss Joan Bridge, all swans that pass below. If that were true the work called producers of Encyclopaedias. By the Spring and Autumn annels was far the most remarkable was the Ford, of London, and Miss Violet the bridge, all fishery, rights in the the only actual work of Confucius Encyclopaedia produced on the in- Anderson, of Scotland, have, entered Thames, and all horses and carts that remained....
structions of the second of the for the annual ten-mile swimming that fall, into the most "
In point of age Lord Methuen fö race over a triangular! course; In Next in importance to the Tide Ming Emperors, 2,200 scholars took Lake Ontario, pa p the oldest of our Field-Marshals,
The oldest retired Frebcb. andin/sqniority he lisecond only Classics came the Four Books, part in producing it; it was' pub- which were: Confucian Analects; Hahed in 22,577 volumes, the index
A woman, aged 66, who was to the Duke of Connaught, who gendarme, Jean Capus, aged. 97, of the Legion of Honour. Ho The Great Learning; The Doctrine alone accounting for they trifle of picking beans in her garden atwan gazetted to the rank in 1909/has been decorated with the Cross of the Mion The Works of Men-60 volumes; whole books were in Cavaillon, in Provence, was stung Lord Methuen bolag rafsed to possesses medals for the Crimtan clus. These books contained say- cluded in it, and in that way 885 ings, conversations and opinions of ancient and rare works were saved by a scorpion and died shortly Field-Marchal in 1911, He has Italian, and Franco-German cam
been a Scots Guardsman for sixty- | paigns.
{afterwards.
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