REVIEWS.
The Celebrated Madame, Campan,"
VIOLETTE M. MONTAGUE.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14TH 1915.
They were married in due course, and at the end of a fortnight Emilie discovered that she had actually fallen in love with her plain husband; as for him, ho was or ought to have been, the happiest busband in Franco.
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There are many illustrations to this charm- ingly written volume, and the gifted. authoress may be complimonted alike her style and intorcating narrative. KAISER'S ANGER WITH THE HUNGARIANS.
To the long list of books dealing with the innor history of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period, Mr. Eveleigh Nash has chioda vafums of absorbing izterost Madame Campan, as is well-known students of this period of convulsion, was Indy-in-waiting to the ill-fated Mario Antoinette, oud, later, was more or less a COUNT TISZA'S INTERVIEW WITH cantidants of the great Napoleon.
HIS MAJESTY.
The Morning Post today publishes & most remarkable letter received by the London correspondent of a Hungarian newspaper from a friend in Budapest. It proves, what has been assorted more than once, that the Hungarians are extremely dissatisfied with the situation, and hints that they may seek to make peace
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MORE PROSPERITY COMING.
It is a stimulating pleture which Mr. F. Great industries of Glasgow-ship- A. MoKenzie paints to-day of the "boom" building, shipping, and their allied in the shipping and shipbuilding trades engineering branches, tailoring and out which focus on. Glasgow. Mr. F. A.Sitting are thus doing exceptionally well McKenzio is travelling through the manu A steady process of readjustment of facturing districts of England and Sot labour is proceeding. The girl who land to ascertain the effect on trade of the assisted in making ball dress yesterday expenditure of the great £300,000,000 is working at Army uniforms or Army War Loan. Ho has already described the socks to-day The restaurant seullion prosperity of Northampton, Sheffield, and who helped last winter to prepare ban- Dundee.
quets now helps to prepare tinned Army GLASGOW, Saturday. supplies Some people have to find fresh
occupations, but fortunately fresh occu Certainly there is no visible distress, and pations are springing up on all sides.. streets speak eloquently of industry. One account of the Mission of Count Tisza, Some shipbuilders, disregarding trade by long lines of lorries heavily laden Every shipyard is full up with orders. is held up time after time in main streets the Hungarian Premier, to Germany, understandings and agreements, are offer with bales of manufactured goods going supplied by a Liberal motaber, to whoming a halfpenny and a penny an hour to dock or warthonse. The most shrewd the Count related what happened, more than the fixed trade union scale for cauticus, and спопу merchants of interview with the Imperial Chancellor, delayed for
The Prime Minister, first of all, had in good engineers and fitters.; Shipping is Glasgow believe this uplift in business is want of sufficient duck no mere flush in the pan. The large Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, but, of labourera. The gas department of the Government purchases have initiated it, course, they only discussed the political corporation complains of the impossibility but if rests finally on the fact that to da side of the question. Tisza put it quite of obtaining men. The proportion of un our position as the shippers, shipbuilders, clearly to him that he could not guar-employed in Glasgow is lower now than and manufacturers of the world, stands antee the good-will and loyalty of ever before at this season, even in "boom on a more solid basis than ever before. Hungary unless more attention was paid days. to the interests of the country. He saw What loss there has been has fallen more the Minister of War, the Great General on the women that on the men. Many Staff, and went from Pontius to minor women's trades have had a time of Pilatus, but was, of course, everywhere class millinery to typing, have certainly strain. Some employments, from high- referred to the Emperor.
suffered.
In the heavier women's trades chines find employers, seeking for them.
Heavy-power.ecwing ma- They are wanted to make military unt- fhe third annual general meeting of forms. The local committee of the National Relief Fund is planning, I sais Company was held on the 7th ult. understand, to open workshops where at the chartered accountants' institute, women accustomed only to lighter trades Sir Ernest W. Birch, K.C.M.G. (the will be taught the use of power machines chairman), presiding. and paid a small wage while learning
The volume is divided into two parts, tho, first dealing with the Court of · Mario Antoinette, the second with the scholastic establishment conducted by this brave French Hay Hourlotte Genest was born in Paris in October, 1752.
Tho pretty, young girl had a must retentive memory, and was fond of learning, so fand, indeed, that we are told she was, at fourteen, in danger of becoming blue-stocking. She had separately remarkable speaking voice, and her famo having been voiced abroad, she was installed as lectrice or reader to the daughters of Louis XV. at the age of fifteen. Amusing glimpses are given of the life of the princessus at Versailles, and soon tho interest is aroused by the appearance of Marie Antoinette upon the scene By the bride of the Dauphin Henriette became reader to her also, her charm of manner and musical gifts having attracted the notice of the young Austrian, and she afterwards became lady-in-waiting and retained that post till Marie Antoinette's tragic death in 1793, narrowly escaping the fate that hofell most of the other members of the backless Queen's entourage during the Reign of In his torrential work on the Terror. French Revolution, Carlyle dismisses Madame Campan's Momoirs in a contempto- ous footnote, but, nevertheless, after making allowance for lapses of memory or the touches of fantasy which he suggests, we feel, in reading this record of one who live much nearer to the revolutionary period than the Sage of Chelsea, that she is giving as true, if not a truer, picture of the Inst moments of the Royal family than
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Tisza says that the Emperor was very much annoyed, and at first did not want to believe that the Hungarian Opposition had taken to threats, for he counted upon the unity of all parties in the two Empires for the great cause. But Tisza is not the man to be scared even by the Emperor he did in his nuas erpiece of rhetoric.
William, and stuck to the point that three It is in the second part, however, that Army Corps must be sent to Hungary to one is most interested. Napoleon consulted dofond the Hungarian plains from inva Madame Campan when he was making hission and to throw the Russians back across early efforts to create an Imperial Court, the Carpathians, or otherwise his-Cabinet He also looked with favour upon the eddca-would have to resign. tional establishment she set up at St. Tisza says that the Emperor at first Germain. Here were sent Horterio do became quite furious, and said something Beauharnais, the daughter of the Empress to the effect that open enemies are not Josephine and the mother of Napoleon III, always the most dangerous enemies, and and many other young women destined to that the egotism of some people was likely play important parts upon the stage of life, to upset the whole plan of campaign In the autumn of 1795, Madame Campan Nevertheless, he agreed to consult the Familiarly known as fumen Campax-hal one hundred pupils, and of the many, who General Staff on the question, and pro- passed through her hands, the Peste mised to do all he could to satisfy the
Hungarians..
The shortage of men's labour in Glas. Boune" (Hortenso, Queen of Holland)
gow and on the Clyde is mainly due to remained her favourite and life-long friend and benefactress. There are many incidents
Aa official communiqué gave à réassur-two causen-the enormous numbers who we would like to refer to in connection, with ing account of the mission, but the have enlisted from here and the vig The shipbuilding the seminary at St. Germain and the school Budapest papers took another view: Government demand.
The l'enti Hirlap says in its leader industry is full up with work, nearly all at Ecoin for the orphaned daughters of holders of the Legion of Honour, which that all we can see is that the Hungarian of it Government work. Yards are not.. Madame Campan subsequently supermtend-Prime Minister had to beg an audience so far as I can gather, running double enough ed, but we must content ourselves with from the German Emperor, and we are shifts, because they cannot
hands. quo-ing the following story of Napoleon's at his mercy as to the safety of our of overtime. The rate of wages has fit of the tin market, and in the Enst all
Every man, however, has his
The war had brought about the collapse. imperions mathod of marrying off his
country. The Germans, it says, seem to generals and protégés--the story refers to have taken over even the constitutional risen, as the trade feels that this would buying or selling of ore had been practic
not be a Mille. Emelie de Beauharnais, nelee of Jose rights of the Monarchy as if we had no But there is a good deal of give and take. Federated Malay States had loyally očna good time to raise wage issues,ally stopped. The Government of the phine, and General Lavalette:
Emperor at all, as if we had not raised One leading man of the shipbuilding forward and had given general support "I have come," said Napoleon to Emilie an army of four million men for the world put the case tu me: In ordinary to the industry at an arbitrary figure of (then seventeen), to offer you a gallant German General Staff to dispose of, and times when a man comes duranding #pc about £120 per ton of metallic tin. After felloe, a brave man belonging to my army by handing over to them the supreme cial treatment and a bit over, because of referring to the reduced cost of working, Lavaletto fy name.",
command we would have resigned our a difficult job, he usually has a cold re-he said the profits brought forward and Emilio's consternation on bearing that national independence and become the caption. To-day he gets very much what these for the year to June 30th Inst she was expected to marry a mind whom vassal of Germany In consequence of he wants." she had seen only twice and whose appear this article the secret police are now
The position from the labour point of amounted to £17,521, cut of which
dividend of 5 per cent, was paid in July, ance was the reverse of romantic, deprived engaged in confiscating the copies of the view was summed up by one man in 1913, and another 5 per cent, in Noven- her of the power of protesting. . Grief and astonishment prevented Enilie telling paper even from the cafés and tobacco-moment of frankness: Good money of ber 1913, leaving a balance of 26,521, the General the truth; but, indeed, how shops. They even took it out of the hands, course we're making good money.
what's the use of making good money if which the directors proposed to carry forward pending the completion of Nos. would she have confessed to the brother of of visitors in the cafes.
you're kept so long at work that you 3 and 4 dredges and to provide against Louis Bonaparte that she had formed an
future contingencies. The directors had attachment for the future King of Holland
don't have time to spend it?"
undiminished faith in the prospects of which she had every reason to believe was General Bonaparte, taking returned?:
The shipbuilding "boom" will not end the mine as soon as normal conditions prevailed. He concluded by proposing Emiliee silence for consont, left Saint
when the Government orders are com- the adoption of the report and accounts.. Germain convinced that he was acting as
pleted. Already there are signs of a Mr. SYDENHAM H. B. BLANDY, in second- the girl's guardian angel Perhaps lo was
Of course, in theory the idea is quite coming demand for many new mercantile ing the motion, remarked that in spite of Do. Smaller Edition 6. less certain of success with "the galiant acceptable, but I hardly believe it would chips. This may take time to develop, fellow.""
stand in practice, for it would mean for many ships, taken over by the Governunfavourable conditions, and reviewing CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY;
8.50 (Lavalette is described as extremely ugly, nothing less than a split between Austria mont will be released for ordinary trade, the situation as a whole, the directors Social and Political Novel, by C. bati en Bacchus, short-legged, stampy he and Hungary and Hungary and Ger- but it is bound to become formidable, were more than ever convinced that large J. H. Halcombe
being an Historical Sketch, to had a comical face with small eyes and a many. The intention of these people British shipping must soon occupy fresh monthly yardage was the secret of sucess THE JUBILEE OF HONGKONG, which is added an Account of the Celebrations In 1891 nose hardly bigger than a pen, but he was seems to be undoubtedly to bring such a Belda. New heats will be wanted for this, in the company's class of mining. They very witty and a charming talker. Emilie split about, and no doubt they are start and many of them. The great Clyde ship confidence to the time when, with the four was beautiful.)"..
ing a well-planned campaign for their ping trade is very cheerful today On the morrow, General. Bonaparte took Lavaletio to the Treasury, where he had to purposes. The majority of the people Every ship that can be had is chartered boats at work, a.considerably higher aver THE HONGKONG TYPHOON, Sept.
would be on their side, and if I am not and at very high freights. If a fresh fleet age monthly yardage would be attained givo, orders that certain sums of money mistaken this movement would be the could drop from the skies there would be against that hitherto recorded. They TEMPORARY MINING REGULA should be sent to Toulon in preparation for bis departure for Egypt, this done, he told beginning of an independent Hungary, immediate work for it to do. The ship could have wished that the amount of the coachman to drive along the lulevards The time of action would be well selected owners are doing so well that there is ore recovered from the ground they hid
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growing against Austria and Germany: those engaged in the coasting trade from £230 at the time the Company General Bonaparte last no tine beating Nothing but the invasion of Hungary
1 bad a long conversation with a lead started operations to as low as £120 dur- could bring it about, and as the invasion about the bush, but opened fire at once:
as everyone knows; suffered the violent and adverse fluctua "I canot make you commander of
is an evident fact I don't see how they ing Clyde shipowner At the presenting the present year might not have
noment," said he, squadron, so l must find you a wife,
could prevent the spreading of the Clyde shipping is enjoying & period of tions which had been experienced; but, in Everything spite of all, they had been able to show unexampled prosperity. want you to marry Emilio de Beauharnis; movement. she is very beautiful and woll eduented.??
indicates that still better times are ahead with only 21 per cont. of their equipment Lavalotto, no less taken aback, at the As to the invasion farce, the letter. In short, we are on the eve of the best at work a decided proft, each month, and news than Emilie had been, and not a little says.
period British shipping has ever experi with the gradual increasing effect of the aunoyed for rumour said that he
As to the invasion, we are worse off than enced. The outbreak of war found trade further 79 per cont.. equipment now on Engage in a liaison about that time last week, although all the available: depressed. We had enjoyed a long and the ground the successful future of the The resolution W39 unanimously protested:
twice troops were sent north and east, even good spell, but six months before the war Company was assured. But, General, I have only soon her
those who had only one month in military broke out things began to slacken, and in my life. I am peaniless, and we are soon going to Egypt, where it is quite training, boys of eighteen, who had been by midsummer we were at low tide. One adopted. possible that I may he killed, and then what called to the colours in October. The first step at the opening of war was the Russians seem to inean business over the requisitioning by the Government of a would become of my poor dow? Besides, I have no wish to marry.
invasion of Hungary, and I understand number of vessels. Since then our busi- Now, other people's wishes were always a they are operating with an extremely ness has steadily expanded and to day secondary consideration with Napoleon.
strong force of about four army oorps in there is abundant work for every ship Tut tut!': quoio he, people must the Carpathians, in required for the immenso traffic now steadily maintained between England The Slovack population in the Car and France Great quantities of raw marry to have children, that is the great.
If you are killed which is pathians look at the war there with utter material have been brought into England aim in life. possible he will be the widow of one of indifference, and some of them aro so
for the manufacture of military supplies. my aides-de-camp, of a defender of the ignorant as to believe that maneuvres are Then there is a significant demand for fatherland; she will have a pension and be going on. Only when their villagos are British ships to take the place of German able to establish herself advantageously burned by the Cossacks do they realize liners driven from the seas. British ships Now as the daughter of an emigré nobody that something serious is happening. But are wanted, for instance, to convey the wants her ARM
The matter must bo Go and talk to me.n case do they leave their villages. old traffic of the Hansa Line between promptly settled: Bonaparte this evening; her mother has There are very few young men anong India and New York A large part of The inarriage them, not because they are with the the shipping to Argentina and South already given her consent.
Now it has come shall take place in a week's time, and I will colours, but because they are all in America generally fell in recent years give you a fortnight in which to be happy. America (The villagers spend half of into German hands. You
sal join at Tonlon or the their lives in America, and there are back to us. Wherever outside of the villages in the Carpathians where the Continent of Europe German liners did business six months ago British ships are 29th
said Lavalette, "I will do pronte speak only English.) ....... "Oh, well," as you wish-but will the ludy accept mo!
wanted to day! The nations that must I don't want to fores her to marry me?
ship their cargoes in British veanels have To which remark, General Bonaparte
more and more reason to ship British goods. One thing helps another I au Ruthenian peasants who had been given not one of those who scoffed at British replied:
She is still scarcely more than a child; she begins to find school dull, but she would weapons and equipment by the Russian trade Very much the contrary.fiers and Wallachians (Roumanian persinf many was our one formidable competitor: he miserable in her mother's house. During from Transylvanin). It is believed that Today Germany's shipping has gone and your absence, she shall go to her grand the Russians are arming all the Ruthenias it will be long before it can be replaced Father at Fontainebleau You will not be and Romanian population, and the Who else is to compete with Japan The United killer, and you will come back to her in two years time. There the whole affair authorities are prepared for an organized will in Eastern waters.
States cannot unless they revolutionise rebellion. is settled !!!
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