THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1935 –
LITERARY NOTES ·
FLOOD OF BOOKS
IN JANUARY
Character Of Works Changing
FULL-BLOODED ADVENTURE COMING BACK.
There
were 1,156- books published in Great Britain in Janu ary of which 410 were fiction, Last year the total was 966, This is not so much a spring breeze as a gale, and It is interesting to examine which way this wind f blowing.
A
Publishing, never quite such dolorous patient as might have been expected of a “luxury trade" dur- ing the depression, is more than .convalescent to-day; it is vigorous. ly aggressive. And that encourag- ing state is never achieved without the co-operation of writers. -
Increased Sanity.
There increased sanity is happily! apparent (or should the credit go to increased publle discrimina- 'tion?). At least, the sickly, sup-i perficial sex book is no longer "It"; } full-blooded adventure is bursting] through, genuinely Informed bio- graphies are reaching best-seller)
A visit from one and a letter from the other cheera 10-year-old Alyce Jones McHenry, Omaha's "smiling girl" as she waits at Fall River, Massachusetts, hospital for an operation to correct an in- verted stomach. Four-year-old Armand Martel, of Fall River, called to show how, well ha in After the same operation two years ago and 5-year-old Pauline Lewis of Beverly, Massachusetts, wrote Alyce to tell her she had been under the knife for the same condition when only a year old. Dr.
·Philemon Truesdale, 'who will operate on Alyce, has performed other simila operations.
The Journal And Letters
Of Katherine Mansfield
(By Phyllis Juby)
POLICE RESERVE
Orders for the Current
Week
Orders by Mr. D. Burlingham, Inspector General of Police.
Chinese Company Strength The following mem-
figures, and novellats are tackling KATHERINE Mansfield windows and says: "ved a with leas periods that present a pageant of (Katherine day." Thus we travel with her hers have been taken on the strength history, themes that reveal life and Murray) was born in New Zealand meet quaint souls in different of the Chinese Company, as from worth-while emotions. Countriesland in 1888, and died in France parts of England, France, Italy and the dates shown against them:
in 1923. She was educated in Switzerland.
Alone With Herself.
tion and inspiration.
J
TALE OF A WELSH TRAGEDY
"A Thing Of Naught"
BOOK OF QUIET DISTINCTION AND CHARM
As a girl Megan had a youth who, with no pects at home, emigrated
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All
that yield a fine harvest of imagina-England and returned to London
in 1909, when she finally aban- Because of her illness, Katherin Idoned music for a literary Mansfield was forced to live very career. During those last four-much alone with herself. She tried teen years of her short life she always to see herself and her work 21st March, 1935. .. established herself as the most with a steady light and render her Training Course-Part II. remarkable short story writer of life living warm and eager. She recruita of the Chinese Company her generation in England. The in no extraordinary person; she who have not yet passed Part II-of last years of her life were an al-too wants her babies,, her garden, Training Course will attend at the most continual struggle against her small house, grass, flowers, Chinese Company Headquarters on desease; but although she suf- animals, books and music, and out Tuesday, April 9, at 17.30 hours for fered greatly, she also delighted of that, and the expression of that Instruction. greatly. She loved life with all she would write. But she felt she loved its pain and beauty and gave her must heal her Self and undergo taking this Course will report at Harbour Patrol: All members pros-best to express what she believ- some form of spiritual purification Taim Tsa Tsui Police Station at
toed was truth and purity: It is, before she could really write as she Australia. There, at first, he indeed, that peculiar quality of wished. So she decided to abandon 17:15 hours on Wednesday, April 10 had no better fortune,, and the purity that distinguishes her writing for a while and live in re- girl, falsely imagining herself de- work, as it does her life.
tirement. It was Middleton Murry serted, married the new minister Her life is in her Letters and her who saw her last, some three
Morse Signalling Class. AN of the local chapel--"tall and very Journal; and so is her real delicacy months after, she had made that members of the Morse, Signalling thin, with a pale face and black of feeling. She was perhaps more decision. She was beautiful; it Class will attend at the Chinese eyes, to which burned fanatical nearly related to the poets than to was as ifough the exquisite per Company, Headquarters on Friday, fire." Then the youth returned for any prose writer. All her life she fection which was always her's had April 12th at 17:30 hours for in- her, and though she was faithful retained the soul of a child, and taken possession of her complete-
struction. to her marriage vows, the child that lived, as was her aim, by the spirit ly". But she had lost her life to Training Course Part L The was born was "the child of her of love. "Oh I worship life," she save it. dreams, so different from its auc- says in one of her letters, "I fall on For all the suffering life had ed out as efficient in Part I of cessors that the brooding Savona- my knees before Love and Beauty. lavished on her, the last words of Training Course (Squad Drill) :— rola could never quite conquer his If I can only make myself worthy, her Journal express the real Constables R26 Ku Chi Shek, R45 suspicions. He died, and the
She loved the sun and in Katherine Mansfield: "I feel happy Chu Kwan Yee, R84 Napoleon dream-child died alio, leaving sun and in every respect showed deep down. Megan to grow old with the family herself as she wrote a real "child
Leong Pad, R8 Luk Ying Choi, R19 Joseph C. K, Wong, and R75 James Ko.
of the man she had never loved.
of the sun." She wanted to kiss
*
for instruction under Sub Inspector Wright.
pand following members, mave been pass-
All is well
A single falso note would have the buds of primroses... kiss MRS. J. C. FAIRBURN ruined such a story, but there is no them away. She felt the air in false note; there is just a simple un- Spring to be like silk and even the
PASSES
French Hosp
Indian Company Handling of Revolver. Instruc- tion in Handling of Revolver will be
17.30 hours at the Police Headquar- tera Gymnasium. Only those de- talled. will attend. “
folding of events, artful in its very cows she watched "lowed softly for Death In Childbirth At riven on Wednesday, April 10, at appearance of artlessness. "A (delight and skipped and jumped "Thing of Naught" can be recom-land, tilted at each other and the mended to those who enjoy a work little sheep flew along like rocking of quiet distinction, even though its horses and danced and gambolled." appear, be sombre" and it can
Inspection Parade. All ranks of be It would almost seem that her con- read in half an hour.-J.H.
the Indian Company will parade at finement to a chaise longue made)
at the Central Police Station on Wednes her love and feeling for the beauty French Hospital at midnight last day, April 17, at 17.30 hours under of the earth more intense. Her humour comes generously, as dors night, of Mrs. Kathleen Fairburn Bub. Inspector RJ. Hunt for a
STORY OF LONDON FLAT-LIFE
Mixed Humanity From All Angles
BABY GIRL SURVIVES
The death occurred
her longing for a real life, for truth in childbirth. The baby, a girl, general inspection of equipment etc., by the Company Commander, Dress however, survived. and for real strength. Her Letters
Mrs. Fairburn in the wife of Blue Uniform, Cap with White are all so spontaneous and vivid, a response to life that reading them is of Mr. J. C. Fairburn, assistant Cover, Belt with Brace, Armlet with veritable contact, with a great soul. measurer, Sworn Measurer's Of-Badge Truncheon, "Pocket Police fice, and they had been married man" and note-book to be carried. Fragments Of Diaries
for 16 years, this being their first The Equipment Officer will make The Journal is made up a frag-child. Mra. ments of diaries, notes for storica, mitted to the hospital yesterday.
Fairburn was adat point of being present
D. L. KING, unposted letters, sketches, thoughts Mr. and Mrs. Fairburn have only
D.S.P. (R.) "Silver Street," by Misa Ann and confessions. Often she talks been in Hong Kong a short time,
Hong Kong, Monday, April 8, Stafford, is a novel of "Grand to herself, reasons and weighs, and Mr. Fairburn taking up his present
1935, Hotel" and "Street Scene" pattern, finds relief in writing. One en post two years ago, while Mrs. competently worked .out and ters into all her heights and her Fairburn folued him here six brightly written. We are shown ultimate depths and lives fully months later.
CHARWOMAN AND TENANTS
the lives and problems of people with her. Save for a single entry The funeral will pass the monu- living together in the chance of 1910, the Journal begins in 1914 ment at 5.80 p.m. to-day. proximity of a block of London and ends three months before her flats; the times are between 1918 death.
DEATH OF LOCAL JOURNALIST..
Mr. Soloman Haroon
CHINESE MARITIME
CUSTOMS
Mr. A. H. Forbes Leaves For Shanghai
NEW COMMISSIONER NOW IN COLONY
The death occurred at the French Dors
and 1932, and therefore consider Her, younger brother was killed ably out of joint:
In the first month of war: she had Alice Gedge, once a supervisor at given him her deepest love and the Ministry of Pensions, is the gradually came to belleve in recreat "char" philosopher and friend of ing they had lived in New Zealand all the tenants; we see her at work as children. Perhaps no one has amongst them, smoothing their ever written more delicately and frets while at the same time she finely of children than Katherine Hospital yesterday of Mr. Soloman Mr. A. H. Forbes, Commissioner has troubles enough of her own Mansfield. Even in a short. Haroon of the editorial staff of the of Chinese Maritime Customst a luckless husband, an unerliabio Journal sketch, the baby with one Hong Kong Daily Press. Mr. Kowloon left on Friday, son, and an aggressively ambitious tuft of goldy hair standing up on Haroon was taken ill during the RM.S. Empress of Asia for daughter.
her head" has a personality of its annual race meeting at Happy Val hal, to which port be The tenants, as one would expect, own, and the little girl who runsley and was admitted to hospital tran
transferred. are an equally mixed lot, there is out to sniff the big white lilies In Buffering from typhold on FebrThe new Commissioner, the young, attractive, and almost the garden and comes in again with uary
S Campbell, has already briefies barrister, the girl-secretary her nose all yellow
*Deceased in survived by a widow the Colony ind will, as who writes a novel; the ill-matched real a little girl as ever
and five chil
of the Ko couple, the prim but kindly Katherine loved the simple
The funeral will take place this days epinster, and so on. All that hap too and the cooke and the little tredib and the maids live in the pages of this
Inner Journal. Or
bonne at her Villa
toom light to have
ithan-a.
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