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That the average quality of fiction has amounts to revolution, so it naturally depreciated along with its increase in follows weare on the eve of evolution in quantity is by no means certain; as long as fiction it is, in fact, going to make a fresh England is able to produce novelists of the "break." The imagination refuses to allow calibre of THOMAS HARDY there need be no an insight into the nature of this revolution. pessimistic feeling on this score. Further, Perhaps we shall give up reading novels and it is also by no means certain that the go to the theatre instead. Has not the
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Ministry of the Interior, desires to Improve service, he has telegraphed to the Chinese upon and modernise the Chinese intelligence Ministers abroad, saking them to engaga soma detective experts for appointment as advisors to the Ministry.
At native from Tekowan was charged before Mr. D. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yester literature has at all decreased. Judging habitated itself and come forward as worthy day with preparing opium. His Worship asked from the large number of reprints of of serious attention? But this means for the accused how long he had been employed at English classics which, during the last ten the novel not evolution but involution this business, and the reply was, "Not very myself of the habit. Defendant was fued 9120, years, have been issued by English decline and fall" The novelists would be long. I only do it for the purpose of breaking publishers, the lovers of real literature have compelled to become playwrights, and from the alternative being two months' imprison- by no means diminished. On the other the time of Sir WALTER SCOrr it has been ment.
There is, myathe Straits Times, un element of hand, there has been a great increase of the held that even a medium novelist cannot reading public, for which presumably the write a good play. On the whole the out-humour in the case in which a Chinsman is charged with kidnapping the 12 year old son of Education Act of 1870 is responsible. This look for the novelist is not cheerful.
another Chinaman who resides at 28 Telak Education Act has now "fructified, with
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JAPANESE TARIFF AND BRITISH TRADE.
CANTON,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
24th April.
BRIGANDAGE, A terrible ocenrrence has recently taken place Pak Lung Po in the Shun Ti District. A men of the Teng olan, having had soxde trouble with the rest of his tribe, became a bandit and gathered around him a number of bad charsc- ters who became much feared in the neighbour hood. He determined to be revenged on his alansmen, and his revenge took a very terrible LONDON, April 25th.
form. One day last week, a number of the Lord Hamilton, in the House of Tenng clan, men, women and children, went to Commons, asked whether in view of worship at their ancestral tombs. Half-way they were met by the bandit ul his gang, who the prohibitive character of the pro-at once attacked them. There was a terrible posed new Japanese tariff, especially for fight, and no less than twenty-nine persons were Lancashire and Yorkshire goods, what killed on the spot, many were wounded and four were captured. The news of this outrage was
The next gymkhana will be held on May 28th. | Ayer Street. The boy failed to return after representations the Government pro at once carried to the authorities and a troop of The third plagtie case reported this season being sent an errand by his father, so the parent posed to make in order to secure fair soldiers was sent in pursuit of the bandita
was from Kennedytown. It proved fail,
At
صبق
the Magistracy yesterday Mr. J. Wood fund a native 828 for haring four toels of opiam on bis junk.
intimated that a reward of 85 would be given for information and 815 for the recovery of the
Roy. The nooused came along and saying he had found the boy claimed the 315 He was however, arrastad on a charge of kidnapping.
results that are hardly edifying. The old body of readers-readers who had taste and discernment-have been swamped under the large body of new readers who have claimed -although tacitly-that it is their tastes and their feelings that shall be ministered to not the tastes and feelings of the minority. A few enterprising publishers discerned the needs of this new rending public and hastened to supply it, reaping large rewards; The total output of the Chinese Engineering others quickly followed suit, and soon the and Mining Company's three mines for the new reading public was found to exceed so week ending 9th April amounted to 24,713.24 largely the old reading public that publisherstons and the sales during the period to 26,256.47
A statement in the Chinese Press, which is queried, states that China has placed orders for twenty cruisers in Germany.
Louis.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 24th April, 1910, shows that of non-Chinese there were 576 to the Library and 225 to the Museum and of Chinese 239, to the former and 2,469 to the latter. The Library was, therefore, used by 814 persons and the Museum by 2,694,
hardly found it worth their while to cater
The magazine- for the latter at all, compound of detective stories, blood nad thunder stories, adventure stories, and pseudo-scientific atories, flavoured with tit- bita of personal gossip-either killed the old literary magazines or compelled them to change their form in answer to the new call.
Acording to a native telegram published in Fraser's, "Longman's, MacMillan's, Temple the Rankow Daily News, the question of the How settlement of the boundary in Macao has agalo Bar, The Argosy all have gone.
been put forward for deliberation by the Wai- does this affect the novelist ? In this way
"TYPHOON WARNINGS,
We have received from the American Con-
sulate General à copy of the following telegram despatched from Manila Observatory Manila, April 26th, 9 s.m. Cyclone or typhoon west of Luzon more than 100 miles distant, fuclining
northward.
THE STRANDED "KWEIYANG." No details have yet been received as to the mishap which befel the ss. Keiyang at Okseu, where she stranded. The steamer Sunkiang (Captain Hardsy left Hongkong yesterday
for the scene of the accident, taking with her pumping and salvage year.
BOYS' BRIGADE AND SCOUTE.
with the increase in competition his three wupu. It is reported that a certain Power he scouting section, is to be immediately started in
months' circulation in the Ebraries is no longer sufficient, he must--to use the technical terma-serialise, that is, run his novel as a serial through one of the magazines. To accomplish this he must catch the tone of the magazine readers and appeal, not to the select few, but to the A. S. WATSON & CO..any-landed. The many-headed demand
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Correspondents must forward their names and attresses with communications addressed to the Editor; not for pablication out as evidence of good faith.
All letters for publication should be written on ane side of paper only.
among other things a happy ending"; accordingly the novelist is compelled to find a happy ending, even if he has thereby to sacrifice all his ideas of art. He might temporise like Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who, in the years of his nonage, prepared a happy ending for serial publication and kept his own ending for the novel in book form but the average novelist is not a Kipling, and cannot trifle with his readers like that.
The sensational and the sentimental are what the public wants conventional crine and conventional virtues, the villain and
indirectly assisted the Portuguese Government, and that is the reason why the Portuguese declined to come to a settlement.
TRAGEDY ON A HOUSE TOP.
A thief who was disturbed while ransacking a house at Third Street, Wongkoktani, neur
A company of the Boys' Brigade, with connection with St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon Itanding members should send in their names at once to the Vicarage, Kowloon. The first
Wood at the Magistracy yesterday with stealingWednesday, May 11th, at 5 p.m., in the Church
lakeng was charged before Mr. J. B. parade of the company will take place o $5 from a saller belonging to H.NS. Mon ground, when all recruits should attend. mouth. Complainant alleged that the defend ant picked his pocket while he was sleeping in Club His Worship was not satisfied with the the archway leading to the Warrant Officer's evidence adduced, and discharged the defendant Among those who will assist at the annual concert for the benefit of the Y.M.C.A. library fund on Saturday evening are: Mrs. Clark, Messrs. R. G. White and E. B. Ayris, Badoley, Mrs. Goldsmith, Mrs. Clark and Miss Messrs. Barlow, Claxton, Taxford and Archbutt (string quartette). Professor Gonzales will contribute violin selections, while Bombardier Burgess of the R.G.A, will give a sword and
club display.
treatment to British trade.
Having come up with them, there was a fight in which a few of the desperadoes were shot. The majority of them, however, exnaped, among thom the ringleader. Orders have been given to take all necessary measures to secure this miscreant's arrest, but up to the time of writ ing ke is still at liberty. The affair is causing great deal of comment in the city and it is
wenkness of the Government and the being brought home to the people the great
that exists but a
Mr. McKinnon Wood, in reply, said he could not say at present what representations would ultimately be found necessary. The proposed tariff had been communicated to Chambers of Commerce and other bodies with a view to ascertaining the probable lesser effects on British trade. When their short distance from the City. More magis- replies were received he considered trates and police are urgently wanted for the they would be referred to the Board country districts, but the Provincial Exchequer has not enough funds at its disposal to pay more calories. of Trade.
"ANOTHER INJUSTICE
TO IRELAND."
LONDON, April 25th. In the House of Commons Mr. O'Brien moved the rejection of the Finance Bill on the ground that it cruelly injured Irish industry and unjustly increased Ireland's taxation.
LONDON, April 26th. Mr. O'Brien's motion was defeated by 828 votes to 242;
TAXES AND DUTIES.
FREMIER'S ANNOUNCEMENT.
LONDON, April 25th. In the House of Commons Mr. A.
EXECUTIONS."
A triple excontion took place yesterday at the A short time ago three execution ground. notorious robbers fed from this neighbourhood and took refuge in Macao, Extradition pro- seedings having been taken they were brought back to the city and confined in the Nam. Hei Magistracy Clucl pending the Viceroy's sunction to their execution, which was given two days ago. They suffered death by decapitation.
CHISEBE: IN AMERICA,
Certsin Cantoness living on the western coast of the United States have written to their compatrists here complaining that the U-9. Government has placed very strict restrictions on them. According to a report published in the native Press, the Chinese-in-question-are tronted Little better than prisoners. The Self- Government Society have takon the matter up and have sent a message to Peking asking the Government to communicate with the United States Minister with a view to securing a osass tion of the ill-treatment. It is highly probable that these complaints of ill-treatment a exaggerated, as there are few people more facile
Cantonese, I have spoken to several Chinese who have lived for long periods in America, and making mountains out of molehills than the
they all say that they would prefer to live in that
Shaukiran, sought to escape by getting out on to the roof. The alarm raised by the inmates brought a man from each of the adjoining houses who undertook to pursue the thief. Both Arming himself with a chopper, and the search whether the taxes and duties to be let themselves on to the roof, ons man first Fell (M.P. for Yarmouth) asked began in the darkness. Meantime, the thief
collected until the new Budget had made good his escape, probably by the commen method of descending the drain piping. Then been introduced would be at the rates
Mr. Asquith replied that the only do, for the purpose of plander. The members the searchers, who had traversed different houses set forth in the Budget of 1909-10.
taxes in the 1909-10. Budget which of this partioniar association hold human life
: tops, came together, and the man with the severe wound attacked him, and inflicted a ohopper, thinking the other was the thief,
The Tion To Pao say that a scheme was set on foot some time ago to run service of motor
country to their own.
SECRET SOCIETY. There is a secret society known as the Kim Chai Wai, which exists, as most of these societies
No anonymousig signed communications that the hero each inbelled beyond mistake. Thus cars and coaches between Swatow and the Hai.an the hack, The injured man was removed would rot continue to have effect in very cheap, and one of the rules of their crdor
inerrted.
have atrauty appeared in other papers will be the magazines and the circulating libraries norders for extra copice of DAILY PRESS are enlisted under the same banner, and the should be sent before 11 am. on day of novelist who refuses to conform to their publication. After that hour the supply wishes has no chance of recognition. A limited. Only supply for Cash.
loophole still remained; the reader could be Telegraphie Address: Pazos.
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HONGKONG, APEIL 27TH, 1910.
THE question of what we are to do with our novelists is being discussed in English literary circles, not only by the army of novel readers, but also by the novelists themselves. It is true the question is not being discussed exactly in the form we have ventured to put it; it appears under such disguises as "The present position of Fiction," or "The Libaries and the Public."
itself into one which concerns the novel- writers themselves. To understand this it is
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to hospital, and the other was placed before
for a capital of $200,000, but the proposal did yesterday on ching district, and subscriptions were invited Mr. D. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy a charge of catsing grievous not meet with a successful response. It is now bodily harm. The accused: was romanded. proposed to double the capital, and to change the scheme to a tramway enterprise. The route is 16,000 yards and the cost has been estimated at about $370,000. The gentry have called a meeting to consider the project.
A ceremony of no little interest took place in of art. Here was a fresh avenue to fame, the Shanghai Town Hall on the 18th instant, The naughty" book, oace its "naughti- the 1st Shanghai Company of the Boys' Brigade belnz inspected by L-Col. Brace. For the Dess was well advertised, was certain of a
arent the boys turned out in great strenyth and large circulation; people would even buy it, under Captain Chandler performed their drill which compensated for the inability to smartly and correctly, correctly coming to the serialise it, except perhaps in an expurgated present when Colonel Brace accompanied by forms. So gradually novels of a certain type. Rar. C. E. Darwent pot in an appearance. The began to increase, each writer going a step inspecting officer made a careful curvey of the further than the last, until it seemed that Brigade marched past, and to their credit be it the liberty to deal with the problems of life said that the splendid alignment they maintain frankly and openly--which no one denieded would have done credit to any of the S. V. C.
lines, and then headed by the colour party the
WEDDING IN HONGKONG. WORCESTER→BOWE, -
the next Budget are the income-taxis that övery member is to be armed with a and the tea duty. The latter remains dagger Last year several of its members were at the same price until 1st July. SNOWSTORMS IN AMERICA.
COTTON FAMINE FEARED.
LONDON, April 26th. Great snowstorms have occurred
arrested and bebended, and for n time it appear. ed as if the members had been cowed into becoming law-abiding persons. Latterly, how- ever, the society has again become notice, and several outrages have been committed by it. Yesterday a widow petitioned the Na Hoi magistrate to arrest certain members of this society, who had murdered her husband. Ac- cording to the woman's story the deceased man had kept an opium shop at a place called Sai Wab for over twelve years, and it was reputed that he had made money at his business. A
A pretty wedding, in which considerable interest was manifested, was solemnised at St. Joseph's Church yesterday afternoon, the contracting parties being Mr. William Gilbert Worcester, son of Commander W. D. G. Worcestor, EN.R., and Miss Eleanor Mary, in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, daughter of Mr. S. Bryant Rowe, of Redruth, while remarkably low temperatures rul-fow nights ago the shop was attacked and looted Comwall, both of whom are well known in the Colony. The bride, attired in white charmense ing in Louisana, Mississippi, and Texas by members of the society, who, however, did satin trimmed with chiffon and inco, and lover's have damaged the cotton crops.
mots in pearls, and carrying a bouquet Commissioner of Agriculture in Texas off. At a lonely place he was fably stabbed, consisting of a sheaf of Easter lilies and fera, was given away by her father, and was fears that half the crop is killed, and her petition the widow said she was living fa attended by four bridesmaids, who wore Misses the scarcity of cotton seed will tend to fear of a second visit from the society. The Ethel Bows (sister), Halen Benbow (sister), the little Misses Joyco Dickson and Susan Blade, prevent re-planting.
their friends.
BUDGET PROGRESS.
The
not find the booty they expected. They there. fore seized the unlucky man and carried hira
and his corpse left on the roadside In
magistrate has sent a deputy to hold an inquest, and to make an investigation of the affair.
ACCUSING A CAPTAIN.
A captain under the command of the Kwong Cow Brigadier-General handed over a man the Nam Hoi Magistrate to be tried. for robbery with violence. The man suid
Their dresses were of blue and pink Persian was to be turned into a licence to deal with units. oue particular problem of life and ons only. At H.B.M.'s Police Court at Shanghai on lawn, trimmed with cream lace, and they wore Then the circulating libraries intervened, April 21st, Joseph Conn, alite Joseph Patrick white chip hate, trimmed with roses and blue
LONDON, April 26th. led on by complaints from their subscribers Conn, was charged on remand with the crime of ribbon. The elder bridesmaide carried bouquets
The Finance Bill passed its second
he was innocent, and esil bis, arrest was the out- Substantially, however, the question resolves who had been led to introduce, quite inno bigamy, viz, for that he, on the 16th February, of pink rses and fern, and the younger one 1895, at St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral, had sliepberd's crooks with climbing roses. The
come of bad-foeling between the captain and rently, erotic books into the bosom of their Armagh, in the county of Armagh, Ireland, did dress of the bride's mother was of grey embroid-reading by 328 votes to 242.
the headman of the prisoner's village. Accord family circle. The libraries felt compelled marry one Lissis Boyd, a spinster, and bor the red crêpa de oliue trimmed with pink satin
MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA
ing to the prisoner's story he was arrested by only necessary to consider what the recent to take some step to protect themselves, and said Lizzie Boyd then and thers had for his and guipuro lace, and her black crinoline hat
the captain, who forced him to state that the Mr. E. J. Black, who presided at the annual action of the circulating libraries really they proposed a censorship of all new books wife, and that he the said Joseph Conn after. was trimmed with pink roses, while her married to the said bouquet also consisted of pink roses. The means. The circulating libraries are the A kind of Inder Librorum Prohibitorum wards aul whilet he was
India, held on April 6th, observed that the year The magistrate refused to believe this evidence middlemen between the noveliste and the
HB.M. Consulate General, Shanghai, un Rov, Father Augustin, and after the ceremony 1909 was not one in which great results could and remanded the man. In the meantime a public. It is not to the buying public the was to be drawn up, where the names of all Liais Boyd, to wit, on the 5th June, 1909, at impressive service was conducted by the general meeting of the Mercantile Bank of village headman had incited him to robber
the "bad" books would be entered, such lawinlly did go through the ceremony of mar-
& reception was held at the residence of the have been expected, Money was cheap, mar
Farther East had been below the normal and; enquiry into the conduct of the headman and to novelist looks for support; the number of books to be rigidly excluded from all the siege with one Alms. Nystrom, the said Lizzie parents, Abertholwyn," where the newly-gins in exchange poor, trade with India and the deputy has been sent to the village to make an copies passing direct from the booksellers circulating libraries. The proposal fall Boyd being then alive. Accused was remanded wedded couple received the congratulations of therefore, the opportunities of profitable employ endeavour to find out if he is in league with bad ment of their funds had been more or less re characters. It is said by those well-acquainted stricted However, considering the circum with Chinese country-life that the heads of the to the public is comparatively insignificant through, mainly because the publishers and for fourteau days.
The bridegroom's gift to the bride was a It is the subscribers to the circulating the authors did not agree, but there is no A correspondent writing to The Tymes on the
account for the year might be looked upon as robbers of the locality and it is owing in great measure to this fact that these evil-doers s0 libraries who bring the novelist his profit. doubt that greater precautions is exclude relations of Chins and Tibet remarks, Next giamond pendant and chain, and to the brides stances, he thought that the profit and loss villages often net as patrons to the gangs of
FRUSTRATING JUSTICE. It is a short-lived profit; for three months
on the "A" and "B" elares, to increase their
to Yesterday, the provincial judge sent one of his book may be read by the subscribers such books from the libraries will be taken to the Dalai Lams the most interesting permaids he presented pearl and jado brocchus, quite satisfactory. They were able to recom
in future, and it is even possible that scanlity in the foreground of events at Lhassa. The bride's gift to the bridegroom was a gold mend a continuance of the 6 per cent dividend rarely meet their deserts.
reserve fund by £35,000, bringing it up is the Assistant Resident, a Cantonese named signet ring.
The honeymoon is to be spent at Singapore. £285,000, which was more than half the paid-up his clerks for trial before the Nam Hoi paterfamilias will not take his fiction 80 Wen Ching-yao, educated at Queen's College, remains untouched on the shelves. To reap much on credit as heretoforo, but will peruse Hongkong, for years sab-elitor of a verneorlar. The bride's going-away costume is of white capital, and to carry foward £26,000. The Magistrate. A certain despich had been en- expansion of business, and he hoped that the failed to carry out his instructions and he was the largest amount of profit from this three the volumes be selects before taking their paper at Shanghai, and later in charge of the muslin and bins ribbon, and her white crinoline figures of the balance sheet indicated a general trasted to the clerk for delivery, bat he had more favourable influences likely to prevail this therefore secured of having received a considera months' fame is becoming more and more home. Thus the army of novelists will Foreign Affairs Bureau at Canton. This most hat is trimmed with roses and forget-me-nots.
year might enable them to take advantage of tion to frustrate the ends of justice. The cass the increased resources now at the command of has not yet been heard. important to the novelist, for the competi-remain chained to the popular magazines active and ambitions official corned for himself s
DIAMONDS IN DUTCH BOBNEO.
the bank. He moved the adoption of the report,
WOUNDED POLICEMAN. tion with which he has to contend is and the circulating libraries, increasing in roatation for euccessfai intrigue when, in 1907,
Oficial advices, from Dutch 8. E. Bories The resolution was agreed to without discussion. Dering the rioting that took placeat the New Year more than twenty policemen were wounded and brought about the impeachment of
Certain officials have petitioned the Viceroy to enormous, Twenty years ago the number numbore every year. What is to be done be leat bis services to the reactionary Hunanese
mention the breaking out of a diamond favor
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL Keep your com of new novels issued every year was some with them! Is the novel itself played out? Tang Shaoys, az event which contributed to the there. A stone weighing 18 carats was found 600, in round figures; to-day it is probably One who signe bimself" A Novelist" sug-downfall of the great Viceroy Yuan. The world lately by a diamond digger, which caused such plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Creme Charmante, Lait give these men compensation for the injuries Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre they received. The Viceroy he ordered a double that number, and unless the activities gests as much in an article in the Atheneum, will probably hear more of his Excellency Wen a stir that applications poured in to the authori
ties for digging licensen In January, the Charmsat will enable you to do it. Her committee, composed of certain magistrates and of the novelists are directed to other regions the London literary journal. The novel las Ching-yso in the near future especially if the number of Licences granted reached 856 In num- Specialities for the Skin are the study of a military affleurs, to enquire into the matter, and,
167 paid, to settle dhe amount thereof, of literary enterprise it is certain the annual evolved, he states, and it must go on present bold stroke of statecraft proves her-In February, that figure was exceeded-fetime. A.S. Watson & Co., Ltd, Bale Agents. If they agree that such compensation: shall be
Buccessful.
Biraits Times, output of novels will go on increasing, evolving. And evolution at its greatest
and then its circulation is finished and it