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and hinder the outpouring. The necessity of numbering his feet must necessarily tend to beaumb his facts. The best prose writers have a good ear for the iambus and troches, and write easily and uninterruptedly that which when read aloud is as musically fluent as any poetry. Given the apt word in the euphonious phrase, their beautiful ide may be beautifully expressed without any loss of clarity. Their high mood nead not suffer depression, as in the case of the poet who must chop his logic into lengths and bis dreams into dactyle That "element of strangeness" spoken of, which is said to eave poetry: from the alleged fate of archaic prose, seems to us to be its artificiality. The unreality of the complexly artificial does not offend us, because we have learned to expect nothing better. Not only the high mood" of the pet goes, but also his high meaning. Even the Times writer oaks of the intolerable obscurity of "the poet, as 'in Mr. Mñaguita's liues;
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further burlesque his beautiful, word paint- inge.
Those of us who might read him afterwards, on some similar, sunny Sabbath, would recogalee the beautiful fidelity of bis word-painting, and enjoy it; but-and bere is the point we should not remember it, We should need the post, or in this case the maker of doggerel, to crystaline for as and preserve the memory of a pleasant excursion, with what we call the merely mnemoniccently coined a new word, which no doubt will The London halfpenny papers have one devices and aids of prosody
be kept in pickle as a rod for their own backs What we have been content so far to esl chauvinism is now labelled "patriophobie." It is an improvement on the word of French origio.
Horisa vailed in heliotrops,
· Massed foliage dark upon the slope That sinks to where the sublit dan Lies glasally and pescefully; Upon it-surface islets press. Like Lotus:blooms in Issynous. The air with bird-made music thrills, Its schoon rapid running rilla. A ailent sea-bird in the sky! Like happiness foste stealthy by. Those iambio couplots, though somewint obscuring the pisture as Jurrasin or THOREAU might have painted it for us, serve to catalogue and commemorate, to tick off aaeach digit as it were, the items of the charming scene that gave the Hongkong {"pedestrian-pleasure They are not of the high poesy, any more than is the jingle beginning "Thirty days hath September,' but they serve the same purpose. And that, our heretical and never-to-be-admitted postulate is, is about all that can be claimed for the most popular poems that be Most of a like any reasonably decent poem or song about the skylark, because most of iss remember the emotions with which we heard that bird of exaltation. We were happ! without the skylark's song the songster did no more than give our happiness a voice.
Ab! the joy of living
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The death of Thomas Caffiu, the steereman of the “Birkenhead,” recalls a story which no Eng. fishman can hear without a thrill of pride.
"To stand and be still to the Birken'ead drill, I damned tough bullet to chew,"
men, who put the women in the boats and went and the four hundred and fifty officers and
down standing as thongh upon parade, taught the world the greatest lesson in dissipline ever known. It was no fault of Thomas Coffin that' he did not go down with them. He was pat in charge of the lifeboat and saved thirty-two A headlins in the New York San" to sn of the survivors. When the then King of article on the latest effort of the Bimplified Prussis lenruvil the story of the "" Birkenhead " Spelling Board runs as follows:-As They Eg he put it in the general orders to his army. Us on to a Surat Sha! We Stand Agast and ❘ and had it read out to every regiment in the Dan, Num sa Shorn Winter Lam, or Pat | Prussian service. Us did no more than give the Tham of Curtesy to the Name of Dout expresion to a feeling which everyone has experienced on reading that wonderful story of and Harang With Tung?
discipline and pluck.
The town of Charlottenburg, which adjoins Berlin, was plunged into darkness-at--an- advanced hour by a failure of the electric current. Three railway stations, several theatres, and innumerable restaurants were ffected by the sudden deprivation. The stop page, which inaled half an hour, was caused by arat, which had jumped in among the bars at the power station.
The King's collection of objets d'art, at Sandringham bas (says "Truth "ressived a notable widition in the form of a pa'r of ele phant's tasks, most superbly · ·caryad with Oriental figures. This is a present to His tended as a memento of the King's visit to Majesty from the King of Bism, being in Windsor Castle last summer. The tasks have been placed in the inner ball at Sandringham.
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LONDON, March 19th: The lockout notices in the cotton trade have been withdrawn.
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CANADA.
LONDON, March 17th. Supplementary Estimates include com. pensation to the Japanese sufferers from the September riots.
RUSSIA.
LONDON, March 17th. The Ministry of Commerce has drafted a scheme for the participation of Russia in the Tokyo Exhibition of 1912.
THE HEALTH OF THE PREMIER,
Losos, March 17th.
It is reported in the Lobby that the
is most serious.
THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO.
LONDON, March 17th.
The US business_sky_remains very cloud says "The Standard's" New York sorrespón- dent. Although the naual preparations for the spring trade show a special activity. to regain lost ground, the utmost anation is observed in almost every class of manufacture. Philadel condition of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman phis is under a spell of stagnation, the railway equipment yards being almost idle, as no orders. for locomotives are forthcoming. Where work- men have been re-engaged, their numbers are still far below last year's busy requirements. ew England reports say that thirty mills of the American Woollen Company are about lo resume fall time, but the managers really and unless market can be found abroad to make the greatest difficulty in avoiding total closing
up for reluctance to buy. The president of the
· American Woollen Company states that; there
is nothing in the present situation to warrant restarting full time. The last day or two bave been a little better, bal 65 per cent, of machinery is still idle and many railways are reducing
their train services. Mr. MEREDITH
brave enough to listen to; none of us very often, indeed, and some never; and then we bave dreamt of something more human bebied the visibla voil, of a Love which is yet to be the ultimate reading of the hard mysteries of life. But, of more Earth, or mere Brain-the only stuff. Meredith would employ-no such figure Oan be WATOR. Thousada who have lived by Wordsworth's gift of faith, Arnold's of endurance, Tennyson's of wisdom, Browning's of joy, will turn away from this proffer of strength-as-ore not receivable by human sorrow till other gifta bave gone before it.
The religions that have conquered the world are not those which have proclaimed strength, but those that have consoled workROEK.
As we do not intend to be led into com parative criticism, we must now return to the suggestion with which we opened--that the true conclusion to the speculations concerning the pe sistence of poetry lies chiefly in its mnemonic values. The rhymes, innemonically helpful, and pleasant to.
Thus:
Beligions that the world enthra} Are not of those that Strength recall But much so do the Weak console.
That triplet, banal though it be, will
When the days are long, When the air is throbbing- With the skylark's song.” That is simple, and straightforward, and clear as a moorland tarn in harvest-time. It is not poetry because it rhymes; but it is postry, because it promises to stick. Now listen to Mr. MEREDITH, who, secording to the article which started us off on this subject, is assuredly never more a post and never more himself than when he interprets for us the song of the lerk."
***For singing till his eaven dils, "Tis love of earth that he instilsy: And ever winging up and up, Our valley is bis golden oup. And he the wine which overflows To lift as with him as he goes; The woods and brooks, the sheep and kine, He in, the bills, the human line, The meadows green, the fallows brows, The dreston of labour in the town ; He sings the sap, the quickened veins; The wadding song of sun and rains He is, the dance of children, thanks Of sowers, shout of primrose-banks, And eye of violets while they breathe; All these tus oirding song will wreaths, And you shall bear the borb and tree, The better heart of men skall see, Shall feel celestially, as long
As you crave nothing save the song,"
It may be Philistine to say so, but we do consider the interpretation given in the
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The report of the recently established Lepe Home at Tangkan, South China, which has just come to band, gives an interesting recard of how the work of caring for the lepers was started sad how it has progressed in spite of many difficulties. Now there is a home where the lepers are segregated and properly cared for, there being as many as 110 lepers in the home last September Funds are urgently needed to carry on the good work and an appeal
for subscriptions is made,
Mr. J. M. Barrie tells a charming story of bis feat sight of George Meredith, whose 80th
BOYCOTT TALK.
FEELING AGAINST THE JAPANESE,
The political question which has just been settled between China and Japan, arising out of the seizure of the "Talsu Maru,” bas stirred some feeling between the two propler, Ag is
A description of the battle on the 8th inst., shows that the Moors were caught
between anscalable cliffs, and hundreds
ultimately cease tire was ordered for were slaughtered by the artillery, until
humanity's sake.
THE TROUBLE IN HAYTI.
LONDON, March 17th. The representatives of Great Britain, France and Germany have informed their Governments that they are apprehensive `of a massacre of foreigners at Port au Prince. The British Consul General reports that the outbreak is undoubtedly anti-foreign.
THE DIAMOND MINING INDUSTRY.
LONDON, March 17th. Kimberey rep is that the Dutoit span
birthday was celebrated last month. In his hero, i already known talk has bee: rife in Canton diamond mine will close on the 24th April
worship Mr. Barrie journayed down to Bozhil) in the hope of casting eyes on the novelist. He sat down antside the house and waited. Pro- mostly the fine fros appeared at the window Mr. Barrie trembled. A few moments and the door opened. George Meredith himself appeared and walked down to the garden gate. Con- sternation seized Mr. Barris; in attor panic head-back to London.
THE LATE CONSELHEIRO ROMANO.
with reference to * boycott of Japanese prodactions, and it is not surprising that the owing to the lack of demand for high priced feeling behind such a suggestion is found | stones. among some Chinese in Hongkong. Of course there is little more than talk, se no overt not tending to a boycott would be tolerated by the Colonial Government, but there have been several significant incidenta reported in Hong. kong which would indicate that some of the Chinese have little love for the son of the Baron Takahira's carefully prepared state-island empire. Japanese produc's have been mont, given to the Press when he landed, has thrown asile with the remark "no sa do" or been widely published and favourably commented something worse. Doubtless in time, and after upon by the American newspapers. Though these patriots have eased their fooling the they have a familiar sound, the Ambassador's thing will simmer down.
werde are undoubtedly prudent, and not se a composing draught on these inclined to magnity the difference with Japan. It is true that it is difficult to imagine that "a man of ordinary inity" could conseive cause for war between America and Japan, but when race hatred is once thoroughly engendered, historic friendship, common sense, and even sanity count for little. Nevertheless the message is sincere, and will sarve a good purpose.
THE BANDMANN OPERA. COMPANY.
The news that the Bandmann Opera Com Pany was protracting its stay beyond the period at first contemplated was welcome news to those
who
yearn for good after dinner entertain. ment, and the pleasure of this sunouncement was enhanced whan it was discovered that
another of the latest London causes was to The plight of Senhor Franco, the fallen be put upon the stage. "The Three Kisses Dietator of Portugal, is truly pitiable. Ho
ja e charming musical play in two sets, with think bitterly of the cynic who said that a and picturesque scones and romantic settings, must often (remarks a writer in the "Graphic") }; anmber of attractive choruses and songs Dictatorship, like a Revolution, has only one Mise Georgie Corlam and Miss Leit showed fuification-Baccess. There have been other last night that their popularity was deserved Datators who bare ended their days in the and Mr. Das. Clifford filled a successful role as the fanbiquable physician. This same piece reverence and even lore of their people. The Late King Christian of Denmark was a Dictator will be pled to-night and to-morrow, of quite the Stoart type The Emperor Francis Joseph has more than once governed by Imperial decree, when the paralysis of Parliament threatened to bring the mechanism of the State to standstill, and yet he is to-day the moel venerated figare in the circle of European Royalty:'
It will be noticed that "Miss Hook of
Holland will-bo played on Monday-night as a benefit for Miss Lait, and it is to be hoped that the response will be as gratifying as the popular actress and vocalist merits.
GOLF,
Deceased
The funeral of the late Conselheiro A. G. Romano, Consul General for Portugal and Consul for Brazil, takes place this afternoon at the Happy Valley. A sorvios will be held in the Cathedral, from which the cortege will depart at 4.15, passing the Monument at 5 o'clock. of the Catholic Union, and as
was the honorary vice-president
condolence the club was closed yesterday and will remain closed to-day. In him, says the sxpress issed to the members of the Catholic Union," we have lost a kind friend and a good benefactor."
6 mark of
DEATH OF MR. DAVID SYME,
AUSTRALIA'S MOST POWERFUL JOURNALIST,
Australia's most powerful journalist, Mr. David Byme, proprietor of the "Age, died inst month at the age of 81, after 32 unprecedented dominance of Victorian and Federal politics far over thirty yeaȚI.
advanced Radicaliam and Protection, winning Mr. Byme's paper made sud pomade Victo- rian. Ministries at will. Its combination the undisputed allegiance of the masses.
Down to within a few weeks of his death ho remained in sotivs outrol of the paper. Thongh he had many political enemies Mr. Syme was greatly admired and respected as well a feared throughout the Commonwealth. His death is an incalculable loss to Australian Liberalism.
1827. He emigrated to Canada in 1850, and. Mr. Syme was born in North Berwick in
two years later he went to Victoria.
STRANGE LEGAL ACTION.
the ear, seem to have no other value as a preceding quatrain more satisfactory. The constituent of good poetry, for doggerel joy of living what else does the lark ***Tis - love of earth that he may rhyme perfectly, and the rhymes of expre?: true postry be imperfect. Rhythu seems
iustila Quito so; that seems very much the same idea less lucidly expressed. It is greater than rhyme, then, and both more natural than metre, which simply acts as a
love of life, and the lark does not instil clog on high thinking. Take that last that; he expresses what is already instilled. That is a pleasant simile, however, which sentence in the foregoing quotation, about compares the mood of bird and man to the the conquering religions. It is a shrewd wine which overflows, to lift us with him as ides, well expressed, but even a doggerel he goes." Both bird and man are intoxicated, rendering would give it more permanency, with the exuberance of their own joy. But now note how the exigencies of prosody lead Mr. MEREDITH into expressions clumsy and halting and ineffective, if not absolutely alien to the theme. We use "the meadows green, the fallows brown," but not being, like the poet, in the "bigh mood" that must hunt for a rhyme to "brown," the lark's singing does not make us dream of labour in the town. Later on comes the awkward division of the phrase " thanks of
Tonight at Government Honie His Ex- soors," which in any ease is not right.
Hopes of sowers," "thanks of harvesters,cellency the Governor entertains a number of guests at an official dinner. The guests include would be-only they would neither rhyme Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Admiral Bir or scan. It is an admirable illustration, Hadworth Lambton, Rear Admiral Perrin that, for serving our purpose, and here wa H.E. Major General Broadwood, the Right way well leave the reader to follow up the Reverend the Bishop of Victoris, His Honour line of thought for himself.
Sir Francis Piggott, Commodore and Mrs tokes, the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, the Hon. higher mood" for poetry than for
Mr and Mrs Follock, the Hou, Mr and Mrs prose, and about the more complex method
Keswick, the Hon. Commander and Mrs Basil Taylor, the Venerable Archdeacon and Me of expression" an atmosphere in which we
Benfator, Captain Thibault, of the French are loss conscious of changed fashions in thought and expression than we inevitably
erniser "d'Entrecasteaux," Monsieur Liebert, Commander Linares, of the French gunbost are in prose." That is to say, there is
“Décidés,” Mr A. G. M. Fisteher, the Bev. F. in poetry an element of strangeness which
T. Johnson, the Rev. and Mrs Hickling, th makes as ready to welcome a certain an
Corps by H.B. the Central Omost Commanding Rev. Sherwood Jones, Mr and Mrs Marens Ltd, for calling our attention to the special was entitled to a third share of £100) in Boath likeness to our ways of speech and our own
takes place at the Polo Grand on Saturday, Hirs Low, Flag Lentonant Chauvin, London, makers of the well known State of Chancery in 1790 had been brough into court, Blade, Dr sud Mrs Maofarlane and Miss New Production of the Ardath Tesoro Co. Ben anunition, which by an order of the Court
-point of view." This explanation does not
of the French cruiser "d'Entrecasteaux," Lt. Express "555" cigaretten, their special" and was now ropressated by over £1,600 in seem to us sufficient, and parts of it are
Mr. P. R. Wolff has joined the Hongkong. Comstr. and Mrs Freemantle, Fing Lieutenant Ardath Smoking mixture which is a blend Console Advertisements had been inserted in
medium and full strength," particularly adapted | various papers without resalt, even quacceptable. That not fuccherable went for a walk on Sunday round the Valunteer Troop Corp. Kinnaird and Granicholson Flag Lieutenant Mallaneda, Capt. for the pipe smokers at
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The President Who wants the money now? boly of the public which, without scorchog westera side of our island. What would ner E. L. G. Arnold are grunted leave of sad Miz Walk The Hos. Mr F. H. May, doubt will most with a very ready sale. The Ms. Hairy fred good many the really musical character of well-choen he not have made of it on that glorious/shanes ont of the Colony for 12 months and and His Honour Mr Justice Wise will not be special merits of their tobacco have been com people do. (Laughter.)
mented upon, by the pros at home.
Sir Gorell Barnes granted the application language, does not "take kindly to poetry," day, in the way of a Pageant of Spring? Sapper Quark leave of abuzou for six months.
if we vouture merely academically to make possibly be remembered where the prose the beretical suggestion that the power of expression (which is more lucid) cannot be poetry is largely a matter of mnemonics recalled. If we were attempting an ap We are moved so to do by reading an article preciation or depreciation of Mr. MEDIT in the Literary Sepplement of the Timer of as poot, we would venture the assertion February 13th, on Mr. MEREDITH's poetry. that he will not attain Parnassus because The writer of the article, like most of Mr. his verses are not easily memorized. The MEREDITH'S readers, seems to appreciate best poetry, in our definition, is that which him more as a novelist than as a poet, illuminates an idea already adumbrate in the reader's mind, in words which attach though he reflects that in most cases verse
Why is themselves readily to his memory. more enduring thau prose. that He suggests that there is "a pleasurable excitement afforded by metre,"
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Yesterday the 21st plague case was recorded. The French Mail of the 18th February was delivered in London on the 18th inst
True wit in nature to advantage, dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so weil
expressed." For wit" we would say poetry.". One RICHARD JEFFERIES has dressed Na Lure to advantage in a number of books of beautiful prose, ne'er so well expressed" | even in WORDSWORTH's poetry. WHITMAN dressed Nature to advantage by ignoring the rules of prosody, and so he will never be a great post, though he was obviously a past potential, like JETERIES. To give this perhaps tedious excursus some afternoon. local colour, we will suppose that JEFFER
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The usual monthly shoot in connection with Bight Half No 2 Coy. H.K.V.A., takes place on Sunday morning at Tai Hang range.
The inspection of the Hongkong Volunteer
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able to attend."
The weathly competition against Bogey for the Saunders' Farewell Cup was held at Happy Valley between March 14th and March 16th. The following cands were returned ;--
C. P. Chater (received 5) ... ... One up
All square All square
W. D. Kraft (received ) Col. Martin (received 9)
Lt. A. Baiss, E.. (received 12)... All square F. B. Deacon (received 14)... ... All square H-Tomlinson, R.N. (received14) All equare C. B. H. Beavis (rensivad 1)
Ons down C. T. Beath (received 4)
One down H. Hunter (received 14)
Ten down
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*Winner of Cup. + Tie for the Pool,
38 entries for Cup. 25 entries for Pool
We are Indebted to Mosure. Kally and Walsh
PRESUMING DEATH OF MAN WHO VANISHED IN 1780.
An application was made before Bir Gorell Barnes in the Probate Division' last month by Mr. George Murray, on behalf of the admini- strator of the estate of the late Miss RebeccaR Paltoney, who died in 1888, for leave to presume the death of her father, Charles Spoke Pulteney, as having occurred in 1780, The President: What? Mr. Marray: 1780, my lord.
The President: Are you not sure that he is dend P (Laughter.)
Mr. Murray explained that the application was necessary in order to prove a link in a title. Mr. C. 8. Falteney was a surgeon practising at Sherborna, Dorset, and had been married in 1772 There was only one child, the daughter Rebecas previously referred to. Mes Pulteney died in 1831. In 1780 the margoon left the | sonutry and had never been heard of rinse. He