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The Chartered Junk: A Tale of the Yangiare Valley. Br' WILLIAM A RIVERS. Heng- kong Kelly & Walsh,
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PORTUNATE NEWSPAPIE STAFF, Mr. Cren med the Chief Beeretary for. Troland whether Mr. George M'Sweeney, ap Stories dealing with life in China must pointed by the present Government Crown Frosecutor for the city of Cork; Mr. Robert always have a fascination for readers in this part Fro
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of the book, the guarantees of a story which will interest them. The principal title is perhaps a little misleading, for only some half a desen pages out of the 244 concern the chartered jank. Briefly the story is one of the adventure of two young English ladies into the interior of China, west of Tebaug, and the excitement begins with the kidnapping of one and the production of hor blood-stained clothes for the inspection of the other. But the stains proved to be of pig's blood, and the young lady after a fortnight's captivity contrived to escape on a chartered junk, which had to fight a bättle on her behalf, and was finally burnt to the water's edge. Sho and all on board were rescued in the nick of time by friends whom the girls had made on the steamer trip up the river, and the story winds ap, as most similar stories do, with a couple of marriages. The whole story is very well told, and 'wa hava much pleasure in commending it to the notice of
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THE THREADS OF LIFE,
(The following lines were written for the late Henry Noville, after hearing his well-known recitation, "If We Only Knew")
Nobody standa alone in the world; The threads of life are twisted and twirled In and out, from one to another, Linking us close to a sister or brother.
All that we think, that we hope, that we are Touches a comrade at home or afar. We should be careful, I think, don't you ? If we only knew, if we only knew...... Gossamer threads that we cannot see Link us together invisibly; White threads or black, as the case may be, Threads that are looped to Eternity. Black threads or white that we may not sever Hind us and tie us for ever and ever. Shape a thought and set it free,
It slips from your pen and your memory;
Lof You may forget the child your brain Long years later you find it again; Altered, perhaps, expanded, growa, Yet, in spite of changes, your very own. For evil or good, a help or a danger, In the heart of a friend, on the line of a
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Here is your thought. Be it false or true, You sent it forth-if you only knew. Behind the footlights in mimio show You played a part, and you made it glow- Mars from dead words to a thing of life, A strong man's soul, a heart in strife; Flare, pulse, glow till the curtain fell, The thought died then, you say? Ab! well Lights out, play over, beneath your spell, Women and men went forth agnin In the quiet night and the rain. Those threads were spinning the evening
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Nobody stands alone in the world;
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In and out, from one to another;
We are the keepers of sister and brother, Each must proclaim at the moster-roll Whether he helped or hindered a soul. We should be careful, I think, don't you? If we only knew-if we only knew.
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Mr. Barry side to the appointment to professorship in the National University, that was no concern of the Irish Government. In the cases of the other gentlemen, my right hon. friend has no knowledge of their past conness. tion (if any) with the journal referred to, and the fact, if it be a fact, that such conection at any lime existed, had no influence whatever upon their appointments.
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Mr. W. O'Brien-Will the right hon. gentle. man name sny newspaper in the thres kingdoms on which such a shower of gold has ever fallen ? (Laughtor:)
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