MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1933.
RHINO RAIDS SURVEY
CAMP
Charges Union Air
Force Planes.
CREWS LEAP FOR SAFETY
. Durban.
Air Force planes making a sur- vey of the lower Pongola Irriga- were charged by a tion scheme large rine, which dived through the survey camp. leaving a trail of scattered petrol tins and oil drums, The rhino charged to within three yards of one of the aeroplanes, but swerved at the critical moment and The bush. disappeared into the planes were not damaged and no one was injured.
rhino.
Reuter.
Bomb Explosion In Tea-House.
LITERARY NOTES
The New
"Triangle"
Man, Woman And Worklessness
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
(By Howard Spring.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
"THE
COMPLEAT ANGLER"
First Five Editions Fetch £1,250.
1
MORGAN'S PURCHASE RECALLED
That fisherman's Bible, "The Compleat Angler," by Izaak Wal- ton, first published in 1053 and ac companied at Sotheby's recently by the four later editions issued In 1655, 1661, 1668, and 1676, proved to be tempting bait. It caught a last bid of £1,250 from an ardent
"Mr. Coombe."
A future historian will need to lous glimpses' which his "wonder angler wishing to be known as
than a widow swathed in crepe.
country. He naked Henry Lawes Scenes and people stand out into write an angling song for him, hard, convincing silhouettes, and and Lawes, who wrote the muale that is true of what he has written for Milton's "Comus," gladly com in the London pages, too. You can plied.
rethis sam realised £415 in the Young
tween £500 and £700. In 1909 Col. Sanford's copy went for $1,085.
Early Works On Angling. The current Hale consisted
ENG AUN TONG
Hong Kong Branch Office,
of
26, Bonham Strand, East
han hero"
been vouch-safed
Frederick Locker's copy of the rend no more than the novels of
against the hard facts of life in Arst edition, bound in the original a deep the Adderson family. our time to be aware of
sheepskin, brought £1,290 in the there dissatisfaction existing in'
What a grand journalist Mr. Van Antwerp aale, 1907, when Al- The violent yells of the native
days with things as they are.
Priestly is! I find his swift, un-fred Quaritch bought it for the hour staff during the luncheon
erring sketches of Slakeby and the first Pierpont Morgan. the He will find by the score heralded the intrusion of
Beginning with the appropriate The animal got wind of a "heroes" glad to hold on like Tim-people in it at once more convin-
[[cing, mora illuminating and more text: "Simon Peter said, I go A group of men around the two sur-pets to any job they have lest they disturbing than the detailed misery fishing: and they said, Wo also will ry planes, standing on the aero-should drop into the devouring of the other two books I have re- go with theo," the rare Izaak wrote drome 200 yards away. AB the sea of worklessness; others sup- ferred to. A woman with and his immortal work which is really rhine bore down on the machines porting their "horole" claim not by eyes is always more disturbing an idyll in prone on the joys of the the crew leapt into the cockpita and the old doughty methods, but by Acrambled on to the wings of the Lireless trudging from office to office and factory to factory -In machines.
Within nine feet of the foremost Jacarch of employment.
He will find "herolnes" whose rhino machine the short-sighti -stopped in his tracks, suffed and chief anxiety is no longer the call it facile if you like, but it in Until 40 years ago a copy of the swung off across the aerodroms, "other woman," except in so far as the facility of a carver who knows first edition could be picked up for golliding with the dumps of petrol the other woman is that Rekle jade precsely what he wants off the 20 guiness. Then one bought for and oil tins and scattering them Fortune, tireless in snatching the
A raro sale, 1896; and since that time the right and left. He then bore down bread from mouth after mouth, point, cuts it with olan, and on a squad of nativen who vanish. The new trianglo is not a man and members the funny bone. ed into the surrounding bush women: It is man, woman and combination: a book to make you price for a good copy has been be
laugh and make you think. warklessnos8.
"The Echoing Man." This theme is thrusting, like a
"The Echoing Man." by Sybil RACKETEERING IN harsh, rocky cuterop through sur
face appearance, Into novels good! Fountain (Howe, 7s, Gd.), is a first CANTON.
and bad, intu the work of signi. novel that makes a success of the remarkable angling library George Forther-formed by the late Alfred Denison, deant and insignificant writers, difficult theme.
The The curse of Adant is inoperative. Ingay was "the echoing man." He of Ossington Park, Nowark. "In the sweat of thy brow shalt was rich, handsome, good-humour total fetched was £3,882. thou eat bread is no longer a pro-ed: everything. apparently, that A very great rarity was Govaert was Bac's "Boecken,", published at Ant nouncement of Almighty wrath, woman could desire; and it
to smull wonder that Madelene, pan werp about 1490-the second ear- OWNER WHO REFUSED TO We have been elever enough
PAY $500
take the sting out of God's punish-siless and ardently pursued by allest work on fahing known, and edition, ment by creating, a condition in wealthy old man for whom she did unique in this Denison Canton, Saturday. which the operation of the punish-not care a button, ran to his arms This caused very keen competition, and found Messrs. Ellis and Smith One ten-drinker was seriously ment would be to millions & bless-jas to a haven.
The book in a record of her dis-ready to pay £900 for it. wounded sustaining a broken handjing.
The first printed book on fishing. Mr. J. B. Priestley is the latest illusion. There is no "plot" about{ and an abrasion on the back, while
pourjia the 1478 Latin translation of the novelist to put on record his dis-it. The only concern la to three
ofhere were slightly hurt alisfaction with things as they the burning searchlight of little work of Opplan, the Greek gram when a bomb exploded under are, and his protest is not the leas everyday events upon the sheermarlan, who received a crown of table in the Kwang Hing Ten effective because he has chosen to nothingness which. George essen-glory for every line from the Em- House in the city early this morn-make it a highly-readable tale. tially was.
peror Caracalla. It would 'not have That was how Dickens made his That is no easy task; but Miss been surpricing to see this Denison The bomb was placed there by protests, and it is the best way to Fountain has brought it off trium-book bring more than £70 (Rosen phantly, and at the end wo feel bach) as, in the Masterman Sykes some bandits who apparently, did make them.
that we know this fellow inside sale, over a century ago, it fetch.. in retaliation for the failure at A Brisk Story
Mr. Tilsley's "Plebeian's Pro-out, and are not surprised whened ten guineas. the owners of the tea house
of the haven At Christie'a a letter from Flor gress" and Mr. Greenwood's "Love Madelone sails out comply with their demand for $60, on the Dole," which came recently which has become a physical and ence Nigtingale to C. Chicheley Hong Kong currency. The bandlis
from Manchester and Salford res-spiritual stagnation and faces up Plowden, on better sanitation first took ten in the tea hause and pectively, erred in being too grim to a new ad perilous adventure, |India, brought £76 (Stanislaa). had a merry talk over the table and grey. You would think, to For so resolutely putting aside for some while. Then, after laying read either of them, that working all temptation to be flamboyant, or the bomb, wrapped up it paper, men and women had forgotten all even pardonably coloured, and for under a corner table, they made oil love and laughter, all the magni- relying so entirely-and, as it turns without arousing any suspicion ficent fortitude which emphasises out, so successfully-upon a subtle the incomparable value of the inward vialon, Miss Fountain is to among the falls.
The case is under investigation thing which is being allowed to be congratulated. She makes
anxious to see to what she will Canton police. Contrai, rust unused.
In Mr. Priestley's "Wonder next apply perceptions that News Agency.
Hera Heinemann, 78. Gt.). sharper than most people's. novel not half as long as "Far-
"Dryad."
ing.
LU
UN
in
HOW REAL WOMEN
AND MEN LIVE.
Plain And Coloured,
are Mice for Amusement. By Baroness von Hutten. (Hutchinson. 7e. 6d.) Baroness von hutten belongs to
BATHER STONED BY away." but in every respect better, Miss Ethel Mannin is a more ex- that class of authors who, desplie
FISHERMEN.
you are plunged right away into 'ternal writer than Miss Fountain, the highbrow critics, give enter: a brisk story; and with some wili. She has collected some short stor-tainment to a wide circle of read. ness the author leads you on for a les into a volume called "Dryad" ers. The secret of her success is is made clear in her latest novel. She Holidaymaker Drowned Ing time before the purpose of the (Jarrolds, 78. 6d.), and there
In River Loire. story becomes apparent.
not one of them that does not make writes, about real men and women dramatically "The "Wonder Here" is Charlesja good readable talo. They do not who live real (if Habble, a mechanic living in such xo below the surface, but the sur-heightened) lives, and she does tell The body of M. Itabauin, whoa town as Cleckheaton might be, face is ably perceived and vividly a story. jor Heckmondwike, or Low Moor, presented. was bathing in the river Loire dur. ing his holidays, has been recover- et at Fleury, near Serves, with a wand on the araip.
Blois.
Sir Charles Beville, distinguish- Some of you may never have heard Une feels that the author writeaed, courteous, massive in build and of any of those places, though Sir at times with no great a breadth slow of mind, is a typical figure in of aristocrats. Bir John Simon, who represents them, that meaning tonds to disappear, her world
dismay and Mr. Priestley and I, who have For example: "Whonever Marce! Charles was struck with While he was bathing, he drew lived in Bradford, know them well, thought of Jonny growing up and when a shadow darkened the close near the lines of some fishermen on That was the whole point about falling in love, panic would fill her, friendship which existed between the bank, who muinfested their Charlie Hubble: he was the sort of something like a prayer rise up in him and his daughter Violet, and displeasure by throwing stones at man one doesn't know about, living her that Jonny be spared the cruel-when he realised the cause he him. After a few moments, in the sort of place that no one ty of man, the relentless,"destroy-came, by a rare exercise of his fri Mr. Rabonin threw up his hands with a metropolitan vencer
hasing selfishness and pitilessness of agination,' to 'despise himself for
and sunk.
ever heard of. And then, in the men, the bruising and the bitter his many love affairs.
In his unimaginative way Sir The post-mortem, has establish- twinkling of an eye, he was made tears of loving."
Even in the mind of Marcel, who, Charles had supposed that his af- ed that the wound on his head was a national figuro, probably caused by a stone.
Charlie was not guilty of the we are to suppose has had rather fairs were close secrets, but they M. Rabouin was aged 28, the act of "heroism" "which he was tough deal from life, such gener- had been the life's sorrow of his father of three children.-Reuter.supposed to have committed, but alisations about man and men ring wife, and when Violet was safely married Lady Grace, decided to there were prudent reasons why a little off the true note.
Miss Mannia can be more con divorce her husband. "Mice for WEEKLY BATHING IN he should secept the part thrust
upon him by a journailut who hap-vincing than this; and is more con- Amusement" is the record of the pened to be on the spot.
vincing, especially when she is regeneration of the man who had dealing with simple things. The had a score of affairs and of his higher her flights the less they reconciliation with the only woman It looks at this point as though move us. When her tales are the he had loved, the book is going to develop into chronicles of things seen they are jan easy satire on modern joyrn-
alism, and Mr. Priestley carries very good Indeed.
SING SING.
Convicta Welcome New
Facilities.
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Hard and Convincing.
i.
that off gally enough. Charlie is
The last touch necessary to pro hawked round London as a nation-
vide the atmosphere of the old home-al newspaper's hero guast, but he HALF A CENTURY
sload has been introduced in Sing has sufficient ballast to resist. Sing. With the opening of a new wreckage when the bottom falle bathhouse the "boys" can at bathe on Saturday night.
Despite the ancient tradition of obvious.
the book is pretty good, but pretty
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J evar it and with its cold mill war, and in the aftermath of War" Professor Saintsbury was one of Keepers, who insist that their chimneys as monuments it is the Literary Supplement anys, George Macdonald's" admirars, and charges have at least one buth then, that we see, what the author “And what he has seen he has seen Mr. Saintsbury, the actor, was week, report they never náw go muchi. in getting at: setting the luxur to the bottom.”.
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