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Small Game Hunting
Mr. William Macqueen, the Scot- tish entomologist, who is racing an American expedition to the Aysen
search Territory (Chile) in
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934.
THE "DINING ROOM OF CHRISTENDOM”
LONDON'S LEGIONS OF
FOREIGNERS
of a FEWER CHINESE THAN THOUGHT
new species of butters, will find British many traces of previous visits when he arrives.
Among the British navigators
who explored the 600-mile strip of
(By Basil Murray.)
"London's the dining-room of] There are fewer Chinese in wrote Thomas London than most people sup
are
coast-line and numerous islands of Christendom," which this Chilean territory is com- Middleton in the reign of Queen pose; and the great majority of.
English born posed was Charles Darwin: he went Elizabeth, and two hundred years of them there 100 years ago in his famous later another good Cockney and They form a compact community sound poet, William Cowper, ad-inhabiting two-side turnings off voyage on, the Beagle.
as pas-dressed his native city in these the West India Dockroad, Penny-
Butterfly collectors are sionate in their love of the chase as lion-hunters.
words:.
fields and Limehouse-causeway.
In these two streets and for about a hundred yards of the
Oh! thou resort and mart of Chequered with all comple- main road itself shop signs are
Mr. James John Joicey, who died all the world. two years ago, was estimated to:
have spent £10,000 a year for many xions of mankind. years on collecting rare butterflies.
alone.
teries was valued at £50.000.
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Inaccessible City
painted in Chinese characters A short time ago the Minister and, yellow faces predominate.
London's
As a result he got into the hands of Health informed the House of Nearly half of them work in the of money-lenders, to whom he paid Commons that on last census docks, and the police, unlike the something like £100,000. In interest night there were living in Lan-writers of sensational fiction.. re- don 20,521 people born in Rus-gard them as a very well-behaved sia, 10,703 born in Italy, 10,525 community.
Japanese belong He was twice declared bankrupt in France, and 9783 in Germany. At his death his collection of but-Another city with a population mainly to a higher class of so- as large as that of Oxford bornjciety. They are largely clerks in these four countries alone is and merchants, and have a club living inside the boundaries of in Cavendish-square, W., where I once enjoyed a Japanese din- Kashgar, where fighting has re-jour own city.
Actually the number of what ner complete with raw fish and cently braken out again between the Mosiem rebels, who are trying to set the ordinary Cockney would re-tsake," a rice spirit, drunk hot. But of all London's foreign up a new independent republie in gard as "foreigners" is far lar- from tea-cups. Central Asia, and the Chinese au- ger: official figures only give the thorities, is a difficult place from numbers of foreign-born persons quarters far the most fascinat- resident in London: many of ing and representative is the round these have lived here for twenty district which centres The nearest telegraph office, is on the Indian frontier, and messages years and more and have brought Cambridge-circus, and includes It is divided between have to be sent by runner over the up families, who, though British- Soho, Saffron Hill, and Sevent customs of their ancestral homes. three different boroughs, West- Pan- corded as thinking himself over- Pamir passes. This takes at least born, still keep the language and Dials. paid. The monetary reward will a fortnight.
According to the latest available minster, Holborn and St. be more welcome in that verse Kashgar in peace-time, is a de-information the total foreign cras, but forms essentially
The dominant na- excellent born population of London is at single unit.
are Italians and Hong Kong, Thursday, April 12, 1934. rarely pays and prizes are few.lightful city. It has an
over 4000ft. above least 125,000, and the foreign- tionalities being limited to the James Tait climate, being
Memorial Black
Prize, the sea-level, a pure water supply, and speaking and foreign-living po- French, but you may hear every
and a European
some Asiatic for its gardens and pulation about a quarter of Prize, and, of is famous
tongues in its streets. I live not million. Royal Medals For Poets. Hawthornden
course, the Nobel Prize for "the orchards.
Sir Aurel Stein once said that he Where are these people to be far from its centre, and if I want most distinguished work of anj
there as any found? How do they live a hair-cut I have a German, an Italian and a Greek barber with- What do they do? idealist tendency in the field of would as soon live
a few hundred 出门 international where outside Kashmir. literature,"
The China Mail
"Recently the King graciously signified his intention of offering each year a gold and silver medal for poetry in the English Jan-
award won by Rudyard Kipung.
W. Is. Yeats, and Bernard Shaw. Everywhere a poet's lot, like aj
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which to obtain news.
Its history has been turbulent. Some nationalities like the in a radius of The Inhabitants are mostly Mos- French, Italians. Russians and yards. lems. At least six times during Chinese tend to form colonies in last century they revolted against certain, districts, where streets are occupied by
whole
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Strange-Smelling Streets
Once away from the main
guage published in volume form policeman's, is not nappy Chinese rule and seized the city. within the Empire by British one," but poetry a very deso-
The last rebellion was so success Others, like the Germans and thoroughfares you can forget you A sorts ful that a Moslem general, Yakub Swiss, are scattered all over the are in London. The smells are different, the faces and clothes citizens." The first awards willate Cinderella indeed. be made in December, 1934, for of professions may be honoured, Beg, was able to retain power for metropolis, works published during 1933, but our poets and our writers ser 14 years. and the excellence of the awards New Year Honour lists. During
dom figure in the sirtnday and]
is guaranteed by the personnel their lives
of the judging committee.
the common rate o Of our poets has usually been a dis-
Back
recognition. DI
Your Daily Smile.
TAKING NO 'CHANCES The birth-rate is still declining. the judges the chairman, Mr. Couraging John Masefield the Poet Lau-a pitiful, struggle for mere One theory is that posterity has existence, a struggle often enu- got an inkling of what is in store introduc-
ing in the bitterness of poverty for it. Binand charity,
ine king, by his
yon,
{reate, needs
Laurence tion: Mr.
Keeper of
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Prints in public recognition of the national "Rowdyism at the Pictures" the British Museum, has main-claims of terature, has shown high the way for others to follow the tained for forty years
a
dig,
of
Royal lead. The King's medaus, moreover, by the happy alliance literature, pro- jor Royany and
No cinemanners.
EXPLANATION
Painters, sculptors, actors, and it is five so on have a lot of parties because it's a poor art that never rejoices.
Many communities have their of people in the streets remind own places of worship. There is you of holidays abrond, the shops a Dutch church in the City, & are full of all kinds of things which you cannot buy elsewhere Greek church in Bayswater, a French Protestant chapel in in England.
canvassing I remember once Soho-square, à Buddhist temple
Saffron Hill during a by-election. They have, in Regent's Park.
called there was no one at home too, their own restaurants, clubs At house after house where we who could really understand and public-houses, kept times, by one of their own race. English or speak it. They knew more often by an Englishman,
some
Bome-
but serving as a meeting place nothing and cared nothing of English politics, but led their for the men of one country.
own secret lives undisturbed. These public-houses times have a clientele limited not These steeply. sloping streets off Theobald's-road and Rosebery- only by nationality but by pro-
avenue are inhabited largely by standard of eloquence and
They con- the poorer Italians. There is a handsome, BOILE- nity in his many volumes
fession.
lyrics: Mr. Walter De La Mare mote loyalty to born.
What flamboyant saloon bar off tain the homes of picturesque or Shaftesbury-avenue which is the gan-grinders and street traders: stands unique in the murmurous centuries since such a conjunc
favourite resort of French and of waiters in cheap restau- magic of his haunting, faerie non was shown by James L of
A man, posing as a famous cric-boxers, and one small dive in rants. music; Professor Gilbert Mur-Scotland, who wrote "The Kingis
Quair" and gave his stanza the keter, was arrested. Suspicions Seven Dials seldom has any other customers in the evening Downl ray is justly famous for his poe title 01 "rime royal." The were aroused by the fact that he
except negro musicians. tic translations of the Greek Poet Laureateship, although did not have a fountain pen. drama; and Mr. L. A. Richards is abused by the grant of its "butt perhaps the keenest and most of sack" to many a Colley Cibber, penetrating of our psychological has become a post of real hon- literary critics. A special fea-jour.
die-literary heritage. And these, in
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Germans Found Everywhere
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GHASTLY NOISES FROM U.S, LAKE
Aur-
Teet, we are told, reveal char-of Now the grant of the acter. Especially when trodden 'on.
Of the large foreign com- Thought To Be Work ture of the medals is that they Royal medale to citizens through-
A Trife Mixed
munities in London the most
of Practical Joker The bride's names were Edith scattered is the German. Ger will be awarded only for either a out the Empire brings home the poet's first or second volume of essential unity of all members of Mary Helen But the bridegroom mans can be found everywhere,
or to a poet under 35 the British Commonwealth of Na-was very nervous, and when the mad they are the only colony that SHRIEKS AND MOANS NIGHTLY verae
The poets who tions, which are hound, each to for his wedded wife be announced has. increased in numbers since years of age.
They are also Langhorne, Pennsylvania. publish no verse until middle or each, not only by political, econo-parson asked if he would take her the last census.
Weird sounds coming from a old age are rare, Thomas Hardy mical, and racial bonds, but also in a loud voice, "I take thee, Edith one of the wealthiest of the for-
the woods eign groups: about a third of small lake or to forming a notable exception, so by the memories of our common Hairy Melon!"
What the bride whispered
them live in such expensive dis that the medals will be a tinct encouragement for youth Burke's phrase, "are ties which, him in the vestry is not recorded. tricts as Hampstead. Kensington rounding it are disturbing the and Paddington, and are mainly sleep of residents of Parkland and point the moral of Mr. Mase- though light as air, are strong as
employed in City offices. There near here. to the links of iron." We are all of the İfield's
sounds described recent letter
The son who's willing to take as a German colony in Islington The "Times," "that "The old are ever same noble tradition, we "who Heat out of his father's book wants and another in Lambeth, but in eager for young genius to appeak, the tongue that Shake it to be the cheque book.
almost, any district of London shrieks, wails, moans and groans, you may find German delicates-occur almost nightly. Some re- pear and glad to welcome itspeare spoke." The open declara-
sen stores, German bakers and sidents believe that there may be The generous gesture of his tion by the King of the claims of
terrible time with German Hairdressers,
a practical Joker at work. Majesty will be a very direct and pory to national honours re-
The Russians and their neigh-
J. Hibbs Buckman, on whose practical contribution to the no-minds us that "the greatest my car."
bours the Poles live almost en- ble cause of encouraging poetry. glory of England is her litera-"Yes"
carburettor tirely in the East End. For the farm the pond is located, noticed Like the laurel of olden times, ture, and the greatest glory of "Yes. Bought the small intrinsic value of the English literature is its poetry," that saved 60 per cent. of petrol, an most part they are of Jowish the noises three weeks ago and on organised a posse" of neighbours awards only emphasises the in-The reminder, alas, is needed, induction gadget that saved 80 race, and their homes are valuable honour of their winning, for many business and profes- per cent, and a sparking plug that either side of the Whitechapel-
As they went forward And although the creation of sional men, immersed in their saved 25 per cent, and after I had road. in Hoxton, and in Bethnal and employees and, searched the nish: they have their own the queer sound changed loca overflowing!" beauty and truth is its own re-own material concerns, forget one ten miles my petrol tank was Green. They are intensely clan-place.
synagogues, use their own lantion....
There has been no damage to ward, poets cannot but bo hu-that, after all, England is honour-
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the woodland.--Reuter, of Royal approval, and Oliver it is immortal as the heart of where they have been they were the making of clothes and tex- or a dog gone wild is living in
ly remark, "On Adept Goldsmith is the only post re-men,"
A Tall Story
"I've had a
tlles,
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