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BOOK REVIEWS
Any sailor will raise his eyebrows as Chinnery departs for India by ship18 and arrives in Madras by schooner. All mariners will roar in indignation at the caption "The American Clipper Ship 'Houqua' off New Bedford".20 To show a ship-portrait of the whale ship "Houqua", a lowly "pig boat", and to confuse it with the famous Low clipper ship of the same name,22 reaches bathos indeed.
This book must be taken with frequent grains of salt. The factual, authoritative biography of Chinnery is still to be written.
Peabody Museum
Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
F. B. L.
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: THE FIRST 50 YEARS, 1911-1961: Edited by Brian Harrison. Hong Kong University Press, 1962. pp. xv+247+vi. HK$35.00.
The Golden Jubilee of the founding of the University of Hong Kong was the occasion for the publication of this commemorative volume. The book has several purposes: to summarize the history of the University; to recall the names and achievements of the University's most noteworthy benefactors, teachers and graduates; to record the Jubilee Honours extended by the University during 1961; and, in the words of the Governor of Hong Kong, to “stimulate interest and sympathy amongst the people of Hong Kong in whose midst the University stands.” Persons of differing interests and capacities wrote the various chapters, with the result that there is unavoidably some disharmony of organization and subject matter and unevenness of quality. Altogether, however, there is a great deal of valuable material on the aims, organization, activities, trials and tribulations, and achievements of the University, which, while not always easy to follow as one reads through the book, is nevertheless accessible with the assistance of the index. The index helpfully includes characters for all Chinese names.
18 Page 18 ship Gilwell.
19 Page 21 - unnamed schooner.
20 Plate 76 top.
21 Built Boston 1819, converted to whaling New Bedford 1831. lost Arctic Ocean 1851,
22 Built New York 1844 as a 16 gun man-of-war for the Chinese Government. Taken over by A. A. Low & Brother. Foundered 1864,