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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonatio apellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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110
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54
HORIZONTAL
1-A door, fastening
5-Competent
-Sew loosely
10-Fleshy parts of
animale
12-A tree
tree
13-To set again
18-SkiMul
17-Augustus: (abbr.)
13-Father and mother
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36 137
| HORIZONTAL"(Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont.)
46-A continent (abbr) 18-Current 46-Morsura of weight 18-Entrances 48-Scarcer
49-A`title
60-More docile
A5-More mature
54-Tablet's.. 55-Ajar.
20-East Indies (abbr).
21-Army
23-Produca
25-Heavenly body
26-Bustts
29-Tardy
23-instigate 30-Rasidue
ST-Buffx
17
VERTICAL
1-Pless of pork 2-Because 3-Narrow strip of
leather
4-A nobla
31-Buffix denoting sight 6-80 bolt
38—A baversgo 35-Trim
33-Passageway
40-Land measure (51.): 41-Boljeltor at Law
(abbr.)
42-Gratify to the
utmost
Elizabeth (short) 7-Musical note' B-Greek letter 9-To utter abruptly 11-Framed words out
of letters 12-Consumés
14-Plant
19-Quist 22-Green spot in a
desert
24-Anxious 26-A constellation 27-Lyric poem 81-A kiln for drying
hopa -Asheimaman
|32-A
34-Den
16-The gods of the
Norge pantheon Collectively 47-Title of former Russian rulere 39-Having ears 40-in
position for motion (Naut.) 43–Ballora (Colloq.) 44-Combining form.
Alr Alr 47-8hort sleep. 49–Japanese coin B1-Mother
68–A church (abbr)
(The solution of the above with a new, cross-word puzzle.) setti
sppear in to-morrow's issus,
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
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PRICE $1.00. NOW ON BALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
England Will Lead Way To Progress
Likened To Moses In Role Of Destiny
SOME FALSE ANALOGIES
In that clever book of dispaa- were easily dealt with by Sidmouth
LIVING ISSUES
IN CHINA."
A New Book By
Mr. H. T. Hodgkin."
Shakespeare's
Illustrations Make Volume Valuable.
11
Art Embellished
Imeasure of success. It is a pity
that the names of the characters are abbreviated-Vio., Clo, Mal.
"Living Issues in China" by As your temperament or your have an awkward look ill-besoam- H. T. Hodgkin, (Allen and Unwin mood dictates, "Twelfth Night is ing the reverence of this fing 5/-), is of 200 pages written by an Malvolio's play, or Viola's, or quarto.
English missionary for American
on
consumption, and contains many Olivia's, or even the rude farce of The binding, half leather interesting facts about Chinese Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch, linen boards cunningly stamped history, family life, age-long cut-To read it again is to realise how with figures from the play and a toms, beliefs, politics, hopes and for Shakespeare the play is for
delightful cockerel, is gay and ap- aspirations. The author spent
propriate. many years in different parts of none of these, but for all; and has
Best of all are Mr. Ravillous's China and has a wide knowledge a unity that belongs to those spon-illustrations. This young artists has of the past and present conditions taneous freshets of the poetic im- never appeared to such advantage.
Moreover he
The great title-page, recalling the of that country.
sionate observation "The Discovery fand Castlereagh when there were understands the mentality and agination, and never to the more majestic title-page of Elizabethan · of Europe" the author announces only about 300,000 electors and a psychology of the Chinese better laboured Invention of the writer of land Jacobean fallos, rouses
his
opinion that the post-war
than most authors.
We found this book to resemble
each chapter Was exceedingly
@x-
population of some 8,000,000.
Sir Henry Betterton and Sir Her period is over, and that in 1931 abert Samuel have to cope with two new era for England has opened. and a half million" unemployed, a
Mr. Cohen-Portheim, who was highly organised body of trades interesting but the solutions offer-tragedy, comedy, farce, and pure colours; and in the production of
interned here from 1914 to 1919, unions and 29 million electors
Wellington. commanded amall knows far too much about our professional armies, never exceed country to be deluded by the elec-ing 70,000 men. In the last war tion of 1931 into thinking that the England put 5,000,000 into the millions of working men and clerks field. The total National Debt after Waterloo was $700,000,000; and their families have all gone
after the armistice it Was Conservative, But, regarding the £7,000,000,000.
What is the use of electorul wave as a confirmatory comparing events and times so dis- symptom, he is strengthened in his similar? conclusion that the "we shall mud- With prudent haste the Profes- dle through" mood has at last been or skips from the field of his torical analogy and comes down to replaced by the national resolve the all-important Fact, which that something must be done." seems to amount to no more than "What that something will be, or the assertion of Mr. Jacks that ought to be, depends on our rulers. Englishmen are not fools. I agree. Rut, as Mr. Portheim thinks that with him that the Fact was so; but the so-called
ofis it so to-day?. Even assuming its civilisation America is a failure,, and that presen truth, how far does. It carry modern Germany is still
the us in the argument between Dr. making, he comes round, by a pro- Pangloss, who says that everything cess of eliminating extremist coun-is for the best in this best of all tries like Fascist Italy and Soviet Possible worlds, and Mr. Lloyd. Russia, while smiling on indivi- George, for instance, who finds the dualist Spain and cultured France, present and the immediate future to the main thesis of his book vary black?
in
that England is the Moses de- signated by destiny to lead the old
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world out of its present bondage WHEN SUBMARINES
to economie tyrants. He has dis- covered much, in the national) character and political tradition, of Britons to encourage his bellet! that England will be equal to the! high task, and therefore Mr. Portheim must be thanked and ranked amongst the optimists.
GUARDED COAST.
Fear Of Invasion Is
Theme Of Story.
How the German invasion acure in the summer of 1917 affected the East Coast is vividly described by Lt. W. G. Carr in this book, publish-
recently. ·
The Defeatist Label. There is another, more plangent and to us better known optimisted who has taken upon himself in the columns of a daily contemporary to "reply to the Defeatists"-1 mean no less a person than Pro- fessor L. P. Jacks. I protest at the outset..against a professor of philosophy flinging a vulgar and discredited nickname at those who differ from him in their views of the future.
"The general atmosphere" (he writes) "became. 'windy' indeed, Troops were rushed to the East Coast and guhs were mounted, and for some weeks we men. in submarines lived the life of fire- men. We were always at short notice, always on the alert, ready to rush to sen and attack the ap- proaching enemy ships and trans- ports."
Submarine officers and men were
During the war this silly label was plastered on those who, like Lord Lansdowne and the Prince) Sixte de Bourbon, thought that the repeatedly aroused at dead of night war might have been ended in 1916 because of alarms which usually ad proved false. On these occasions or 1917; and everybody now mits that they were right, and that the Harwich submarines were al- if the Emperor Carl's offer had ways ready for sea twenty mintues been taken the world would have after the signal had been given, despite the fact that various mem- been spared, not only two years of bars of the crew had to be collect- carnage, but also the Peace of
ed from shore billets. Versailles:
A thrilling account is given of Another phrase in the Profes- sor's article is "Jeremiah bas be the ramming of a German U-boat come A best-seller." All this by a British submarine: means that those who refuse to see "The U-boat saw us coming at, the future through the rose-tinted her like a ram at a gate. She spectacles of the Professor, and went into a crash dive but it who detect the falseness of his his- doesn't quick enough. We tore torical analogies, are short-sighted through deck plating as she cowards. "False analogy is the dipped under, and lift her with fruitful parent of error," said some enough force to drive her down- philosopher greater than Mr. wards, so she hit the bottom with Jacks; probably Bacon. Let us a bump and bounced clean to the glance at some of the historical surface again. It was quite instances given to assure us that shallow, not more than six or we are out of the desert and have
eight fathoms deep." already one foot in the Promised Land.
History At Random.
"As I turn over the pages of our history at random I find that the present, crisis' might have been written at the top of every one.
says Mr. Jacks. I am afraid, that
"By" the time she bobbed up again our captain, had the, toz- pedos ready, and his eyes ware accustomed to the darkness. He fired one 'fish." When it hit there was
no question about -"Fritz's' fate.”.
The story of a bride who was
the late Principal of Manchester marooned in a submarine during a College has turned over his his- gale is told with a wealth of tory books very much at random. humorous detail, while the terribla I hope he didn't lecture on history, strain, both mental and physical, For his Julius Cassar-William the of service in undersen - craft in Conqueror-Black Death-Henry the war-time is depicted in language Eighth's "Monasteries -Spanish the restraint of which carries con
'crises" are Armada
mereviction. buffoonery,
It is unfortunate, however, that We know really nothing about the author, revives the legend of s those lavents, -etvēpt picturééque mystery. In connection - with the stories. The Cromwell coup d'etat sinking of the Hampshire with certainly was a crisis, which took Lord Kitchener on board.. Had he 20 years and the death of the referred to the Omciál - Histories, principal protagonists to settle both British and German, he would Notom Comfort there for the have found that the loss 61 ↑ this, Optlin Ints. As for the unch Re- Chip was due on incontrovertible
Here is a book—there are
constructed fables.
pectations, more than fulfilled by The piece is a miracle, especial-the dainty and dexterous pictures
in the text the curate's egg-the first half of hy in its astonishing mixture of
They are printed in various
one thinks only of the book Mr. and Mrs. Gibbings ed by Mr. Hodgkin were not at allyrics if convincing. The book is unfor- Malvolio, "Twelfth Night" might have done full justice to their en- tunately lop-sided, the excellent be a Russian piece; but in Shake-graver. descriptive and historical parts ba-speare as, thank God; frequently only 276 copies to be had-which Ing neutralized by missionary pro- enough in life breaks in bird-song. would have been snapped up had it paganda. This book may appeal the song of love, and the merry appeared two years ago; the pru to those for whom it is obviously laughter of men at ease.
dent who might then have refrain- written, the Pilgrim-Father ele- To put this play in a setting ed from buying it for pleasure, had ment in America, but will scarcely worthy of it has been the aim of better buy it now an invest- influence any Briton who has lived the Golden Cockerel Press, and they ment. When the world recovers, la China.
must be congratulated on a fine no mere three guineas will get it.
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