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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1931.
“Q” ON" JOHN
MASEFIELD'S
NEW POEMS
LEGENDS RETOLD AND COUNTRY TALES.
By Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
"Once (long ago) there was na
English King,
the poets to improve and embroider upon it, and the lovers, belike, have many seas to crose yet-
Who loved good stories more than "Raise the light, my Page, that
anything."
So he died, and one of his succes- sors very sagaciously made Mr.
may see her
Yes, the spray is on thy cloak and
hair,
But thy dark eyes are not dimm'd,
proud Iseult!
fair."
John Maarfeld Poel Laurente: whereat many good people rejoiced,
And thy beauty never was more for It is traditional with good mon
It has challenged Mr. Masefield archis
Jaroun (from
Alraschid
before now; and the irony is that down) to enjoy goud stories and so while it provokes constantly to ex- prove themselves kin with their quisite lines and beautiful digres aubjects who also enjoy that sort of sions, the stark poignancy of the tale as it stands in Gottfried's thing, but are scantily fed on it
chronicle can never be matched. Mr. nowadays-in poetry anyhow. Musefield can yet embroider this Now Mr. Masefield has always re-with delightful stanzas, as when he membered that he belongs to the enumerates the beasts, birds and line of Chaucer, and has stuck pretty constantly to our simple "And there were otters from the
mere, and voles
human curiosity about men and
women
doing things-to the inn,
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MURDERED MAN FOUND.
Victim of Extortionists?
THE
CHINA
MAIL:
SUMMARY OF OVERNIGHT CABLES.
An unidentified male Chinese in his early thirties was found Fall of Sterling. murdered at 11.20 o'clock yester- German financial circles are per- day morning, says the China turbed at the continual decline in Press of November 26, in Chan British currency, and some quarters Ka-zah, an alleyway leading belleve, if a debacle in to be avert off Carter Road between Avenue ed. Britain must come to an agree="
GOLDEN WEDDING.
(Continued from Page 1.)
both for the celebration of 'your golden wedding"
The Rt. Hon. J, H. Thomas :-**** wish that we could be, with you, it le of course quite impossible, so I must conône myself to sending very best congratulations and good wishes from Mrs, Thomas and my self to you and Lady Ho Tung,"
Sir Clad Severn:-"Heartiest |
Sir James and Lady Lockhart:--| decline is attributed to France andWe wish you both continued hap Though nothing could be as-
piness and success and hope the Ho certained from the Settlement Holland extensively selling.
Clan will continue to flourish." Police Force, it was ascertained
Sir Charles at Lady Addis :-- that the deceased met his death
“We hasten je sent you our felicità-} One of the missiles Sir Newton John Stabb died yestions on the celebration of your
Sir Newton golden wedding." had lodged is head and the lerday. In London. other in his abdomen. The was manager for some yours of the Sir Newton and Lady Stabb:- police, in searching the body, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking "My hearty congratulations as well
as those of y wife to found several dollars and a letter Corporation in London,
Tung and yourself on your Golden) the envelope of which was miss- ing.
Wedding."
and Sinza Ronds, by a Chinese ment with her creditors. The congratulations." police constable attached to the fell in New York to $8.27%. The Bubbling Well Police Station,
by two bullets, presumably from Str Newton Stabb,
pistol.
BURIED “MILLIONS.”
Farmer Holds Up Treasure Hunt.
It is not yet known who com- mitted the crime and the motive for it but unofficial reports claim that the Settlement detectives believe that the victim had either refused or had been un- able to meet with the demands of
the field beastleles that gather to Tristan's some unknown extortionists.
Bong:
Out of the brook, still nibbling
at the cress,
shoals
Watching the shadows in the
Klassiness;
And kingfishers as bright as blazing
the fo'c'n'le. the chimney-corner: The herons who stand fishing, in the. after a long day's ride, the camp fire under the stars (never forget- ting the stars). For, towards! Ithaca, or Canterbury, or Mecca, the city of Cetrops, or the City Celestial, we are ali pilgrims yet!
by impulse.
Old Tales Retold.
coals
Burning blue skimmings where
AMATEUR DRAMA.
Performance in Union
Church Hall,
Lille, Oct. 7, motto of M. Maes, the owner of Beetroots before goid is the
at Cysoing, beneath which is believed to be buried treasure worth £2,000,000.
He still refuses to have his field of beetroots dug up to en- able investigators to reach the gold, believing that a beetroot in the hand is worth two bits of
the ground,
so to
At the Union Church Hall, Kow-gold under loon, last night, members of the speak.
Young People's Society produced When his crop is gathered he
two one-act plays, "Between Soup and Savoury" and "Confessional."
declared he will let his field be turned over and not before.
LAGY 26W!
Mr. and Mrs. D. Landale, Mr.: and Mrs. D. C. M. Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Leefe:-Hearty con- gratulations and best wishes on this memorable occasion.
lations on such a unique occasion, Mr. and Mrs. H. D, C, Jones- we offer you our hearty congratu which so many aspire and so few
achieve."
FROM SOURABAYA,
H.E. Sir Murchison. Fletcher- (Governor of Fiji)All good wishes."
FROM PEIPING.
H.E. Sir Miky Lampson:"My Mrs. G. R. Leib, Mrs. F. W.
best Abbey Treasure,
congratulations on this Niblet and Miss R. F. Ingram In the hope that the tunnel, inauspicious occasion." were in "Between Soup and which the treasure is believed to General Ho Fung-lin, and Mr. and, Savoury, while the performers of lie, is connected with passages Mrs. Mei Lan Forig. "Confessional" were Mr. G. R. Leib, which may pass right through Miss Maud Braga, Mr. T. R.the beetroot field, searchers are
the minnows rise, And glittering wing'd green-
gleaming dragon-flies." Yet what is this but embroidery? As he confesses in his Prologue Keatsian, if you will, yet embrai to his new book published to-day*dery. And how could Mr. Masefield ingrant, Miss P. Langmead, Mr. digging up adjacent land to find ]
suggest to young listeners, too- aml it is a confession of which no any close of the story alternativa true storyteller has even been with that old superb one of the ashamed-
white sail and the block?
"How often have I told these tales
before
Later in these pages comes the story of Fair Rosantind, and after them a sort of masque of Dick
To you, the listening pilgrims, Whittington and his Cat, in which,
who anon
Sel vat. towards the walls
. thinsted for Across the desert, while
planet shone?
to speak frankly, I can detect little you but simplesse or silly sooth, tuned up here and there by theatrical the "poetry":
Often, perhaps, and often may re-
-tell,
}
In distant lands and times, as'
daylight fails, When you, the pilgrims, camp beside the well, and 1. the pilgrim, resellert the tales."
All very well! But the trouble
"Dark Eleanor and 'Henry sat át
meat
At Woodstock in the Royal hunt-
ing seat.
Eleanor said: "The wind blows
bitter chili
Will you go, out? King Henry
said, “I will.”
A Rattling Story. I find, passing from tale to tale in This somehow reminds one of the this book, is to discover what road spouse in Victorian vaudeville-she these pilgrims are travelling, on and Queen Eleanor sisters "under what.
Koal
intent, Or
just their skins"-who sang reproach who they are whom Mr. fully: Masefield
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is beguiling. In "You promised to be home, Sir, Rort ki dedication on Ꭼ ; at six to dine; fly-leaf he thanks "the beautiful Instead of which you come, Sir, speakers-who, in the speaking of at half-past nine?" these. tales and seenes, have deeply which again somehow does not seern
Fleniing.
Mr. A. W. Ingram presided.
FROM SHANGHAI.
(former
T. G. McKay, and Miss P. Gardner. one of these entrances.
· Mr. Ych Kung cho Mra. P. St. A. Sharpham accom-
The treasure belonged to a for- | Minister' of Communication):— panied the musical items. Mr. mer abbey of Cysoing on the "Heartiest congratulations on cele- H. G.,Annís rendered several songs.Frar.co-Belgian frontier. Re-bration of Golden Wedding."
was accompanied by Mr. W. R. parts of its finding. have attruct- Mr. John Keswick, Mr. B. D. ed a crowd of opportunists. Beith, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ben- The value of the find; at first jarain, Mr. and Mrs. Li Ming. Mr. reported at £5,000,000, has de- and Mrs. Tsu Yee-pi, Mr. and Mrs. [clined to £2,000,000, although its Chang Kaingau, Mr. K. P. Cheng,| actual worth will not be known Mr. David Au, Mr. Rang How, Mr. are Fung Keug-Itwang, Mr. Sung Hang- ready for the market.
chang, Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Huang, Mr. M. Y. Tang, Mr. Chung Bing him and Nephews.
STOLE A 'PLANE.
Extraordinary Case in until M. Maes's beetroots
Sydney.
- A CHEQUE RETURNED.
LOST NAPOLEON LETTER.
Found Among Leaves Of A Book
Bought From A Stall,
my
FROM CÂNTON.
Dr. and Mrs. C: C. Wu
Locat
on
An extraordinary story was told at the Redfern Police Court, Sydney, when Walter William Crothers, 22, charged with hay- After 31 years since its dis- from the State ing stolen clothing valued at £20, appearance
a letter written by property of Mr. F. J. Scott, the archieves, cot airdrome on October 1, was Italian Senate protesting against well-known aviator, at the Mas-Napoleon to the President of the sentenced to nine months' impri-popular demonstrations in Italy
has been found among the leaves your name so According to Police Prosecutor of a book bought at a weekly well deserved congratulations in- Crothers went to the stadium market in Milan. one Saturday night in Mr. Scott's The letter, which was missed
'sonment.
His Lordship, Bishop Valtorta:-) "I am very eager to convey to you heartiest congratulations full of good work and activities, and this happy occasion. Your life, so
closely associated; with many local institutions call for
May God bless you
deed,
with
make you also worthy, to deserve,
clothes, and with Mr. Scott's with four others photographed many, many more years of life and delighted me," and he gives a list to atrike the key of the subsequent cheque books in his possession. in 1900, for reproduction in anot only the fleeing reward contain- Ringside Scat,
book, was written in 1809.
of names which-so far as mere assurance that "Henry and Eleanor names can convey anything to any are now with God," or, of Fair one who has not the privilege of Rosamund, that
thefr owners' acquaintance-would suggest that these pilgrims aro young. I seem to delect the as-. sumption by Mr. Masefield' of a cer- tain precocious playing-at-simplicity Į
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"There every May the grass above
her bosom
Is strewn with hawthorn bloom
and apple blossom." These notes, I protest, do not!
in his young reciters. I hope that chime in one poem. And then, as
Mocking at Chaucer.
life."
Just prior to the contest for As the loss was only discovered in men's congratulations and the middleweight title between ed some years after the letters applause, but also, and chiefly, the Palmer and Hannaberry, Cro- had been photographed, it was eternal reward of a happy future thers, who was occupying a ring-impossible to discover the culprit, side seat, offered the manage- and search was finally dropped. ment of the stadium £100 to pro-One of the four letters was found vide a middleweight trophy and two years ago.
a middleweight belt.
at
•
book in
PRINCE MICHAEL'S TENTH BIRTHDAY.
Presented With Warrant Of Corporal.
The present letter was brought The offer was accepted with to the notice of the authorities I am wrong. or alternatively as though to persuade us that it alacrity, and when conditions by a lawyer to whom it had been the lawyers any) that he is wrong, doesn't matter that he is artist governing the coming fight for handed by a client for advice on but while the well beside which the enough to do what he chooses-Mr. the trophy were drawn up, Cro- its authenticity. A cinematograph pilgrim sings may be pretty certain- Masefield flings into the discordancethera paid over a cheque for £100. operator has been traced as the ly located on a slope of Boar's Hill, atory, "The White Swan," with a This was drawn on a Melbourne original buyer of the over Oxford his audience probably slcar note that carries us high away bank, but was returned, so that which it was found. knew where they were the variety above these dubieties with a ratt- there will now be no trophy to of his address, in subject and key, ing (literally a "rattling") tale of a fight for, must have left them a little doubtful chariot-race, to warm the blood at who they were.
any time of life; so exciting it, too, that one has to draw breath before For the collection opens with a going back to admire the perform pretty ironical fable "Minnie May-ance afresh for the material skill low's Story"-nently fold and con-which keeps it going with apparent taining the useful moral that, while ease. fta themes may be few; story-telling | Dr. Robert Bridges. Stself is inexhaustible—a parable so He was always a poet, and al- written as to please auditors of any ways will be. And his predecessor, given uge. We pass from this to Robert Bridges, was always a poet "Adams and Eva," in which the and an inspirer of good judgment story of the Fall finds Itself com- about poetry-always provided that pressed into three pages with a skill one kept cool and had the pluck to cer's style to a nicety, mocks his talking nonsense. Ho not only for of parody which at once hits Chau- tell him, now and then, that he was padding-out of: rhymd with “as 1) gavė, but. rejoiced in, such opposi- rehearse," "as I gesse," "there ris Elon; and I draw the conclusion nafore to say," and implicitly re-that there is just a little too much In a fatal motor accident in Carpathians, on the site of a famous bukes Chuuser's long-windedness. of Boar's Hill in this book-even Sydney a tragic circumstance old monastery, to-day went to King The reader, having left Minnie (for a detail) in its eccentricities was the discovery among the de Carol's summer palace to present Maylow behind, begins to know of spelling.
bris, of a wreath, bearing the Corporal's warrant, and HLH's their classmate, Michael, with B where he is, or to think he knows. I. for one, refuse to pronounce letters "LP and tied to the School Commander read the decree
awreath were black ribbons. The
+
Then, after a second parable— "galloped!"""or"
simple in its way, old in tradition, "galloppt."
"gallop'8":
toldi with a touch of virtuosity-he "So suddenly as we galloppt-
falls plump, upon two Imaginary episodes, woven into the immorta), most tropical love-story on earth-
that of Tristan and Isolt. That
"Clop, clop
SERVE
Convicted at Parramatta. Crothers Was convicted Parramatta some time ago for stealing an areoplane. By false representations to the authori ties of Hargrave Parke he'ob- tained the plans, flew off with
Bucharest, October 25, it, and crashed.
Prince Michael, heir to the Francis James Scott, aviator Roumanfan throne, in to-day cele said that he left two trunks, cor- brating his tenth birthday, dividing talning clothing and papers at his time between his father, King the airdrome and on October 3 Carol, and his mother, Princess found that one had been stolen: These contained a lot of valu-
Groups of small boys from ant to him, but which he learn Lyces at which the Prince is a able pipers, which were import Reuraarla's most exclusive Military ei, Crothers had burned.
| pupil,, situated, at the foot" of the
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Helen:
wreath had been placed on a ser promoting Him.in
vice car us a sardonic tipust at
the Transport Board in restrict-|
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris,ing services, for it was to be the
and he;
THE BIG HOUSE
last trip of the car in the servica Nearly every Federal prison now
I galloppt, Dirk galloppt, we the new regulations came into has talking picture equipment, says
galloppt all three."
rueful story of love ruthless, invin-| elblé, us it.' deflex time, has chal lenged, and will go on challenging, | Joris, nor anyone else, ever.
force. No one dreamt that the Rayter's. Washington, correspon-
No, I never Ald, nor Dirk, nor last journey would end so disas-dent., Many prisoners attend the
trously.
onco-a-week performances.
FROM SWORDS TO LIPSTICKS.
Munition Factories Now Making Luxuries,
Now that it is no longer the fashion to manufacture guns and other munitions, of war, the Aus tralian armament · factories have turned their attention to the pro-] duction of lipstick holders and other necessities of peace.
The products or the munition factories include:
Golf irons.
Talkie, machines: Motor accessories. Spoons.
Loud' speakers: Sheepshearing machines. Smokers' stands Farka
These articles were all imported]i until Zalling ravenud mäđo iti necessary for Australia to impose
prohibitive customs duties.
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