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CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE. MR. HARRY ORE'S THIRD
MR. YEH KUNG-CHO'S SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT,
RECITAL.
Special, requests" are special requests; but it must have been a very special one
PEKING, November 19th. The following suggestions for the im- to induce Mr. Onderwijzer to include the provement of China's foreign trade sub- Pagliacci Prologue in what was otherwis mitted to the President by Mr. Yeha programme of serious German music. [Kung-chu, former Minister of Communi- With this exception the rocal_numbers": cations, have been passed over to the were admirably chosen and served a Cabinet for consideration and enforce definite purpose in the general scheme, ment to the mutual advantage of foreign for no study of Schubert's music would and Chinese businessmen. in China:
(1) The abolition of litia and the re-be complete without some account of the vision to the tariff..
Likin (or transit dues) which is stig. songs which he wrote in such incredible matised as a bad tax has been the numbers. Schumann's settings of songs bone-of-contention of reformers for many were much fewer, but they contain some. years. Since the conclusion" of " the of his most characteristic compositions. Mackay treaty (Shanghai, 1902) in which China promised to discard completely The singer was in excellent voice, espe- this means of raising revenue, Chinese cially, of course, in the more dramatic merchants have been living in hopes of numbers, namely, Schubert's" Aufen seeing the résolution carried out. Later, thalt and Schumann's Two Gren-1 in 1918, when the Tariff Revision Com
mission sat in Shanghai, the delegates adiers"; best of all, perhaps, in the of the Powers again expressed the hope Pagliacci Prologue.** --
that the pernicious system would soon bear. Ore boldly called his programme abolished. At the Conference of the of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumans. British Chambers of Commercs held in The Romnatics. The epithet is often Shanghai last year, the matter received
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a great deal of attention, and, in fact, misapplied, but in the realm of art the New Romance has a very definite mean- formed one of the principal topics of discussion. The British Minister in ing, and these three composers are cer- Peking, at the request of the Conference, tainly outstanding types of the movo- brought the case for the abolition of mout, which cast off the trammels of the liken to the notice, and consideration of classical just as the Franch Revolution the Chinese Government and urged that (from which the movement got its in- immediate action should be taken. The spiration) shook off the letters
an effete nobility. In following shows the revenue obtained monarchy and
these days we associate Romance with from these transit dues:-
moonlight on the water, with blue lagoons, sometimes with the gallant quests of palfrey-mounted chivalry. In ita more re-restricted artistic sense, Romance may perhaps be said to signify the-true-as- against the artificial, the seeing of nature in the free air instead of through the library window.
1. Likin revenue, $30,250,000 'yearly. 2.-Railway goods tax revenue 89,220,000 yearly, wh
3. Principal and miscellaneous ceipts, $11,720,000 yearly.
4Terminal duty, $1,600,000 yearly. The whole question now remains in the hands of the foreign Powers, who are concerned in determining the reclassifica tion and valuation of the goods on the basis of ad effective 5 per cent, tariff and a further special surtax of one and half times the import duty. This deter mination is of the utmost importance. In foreign countries luxuries have special rate of taxation. So China will have to consult the Powers to increase the present levy to the limit of 125 per cent. As for chemicals" and other indus trial necessities which China does not produce, a reduction in the rate of taxi tion should be effected so as to neist the infant bomb Industries and to amord the foreign Powers an illustration that China's primary object is to develop her industries and commerce,
It is always attractive (sometimes dangerously so) to look for analogica between different forms of art, and, while tho Pre-Raphaelite painters or the writors of other nations might be cited for the purpose, there happen to be three English poets of this same Bomantic period and drawing their inspiration from the same open air of the French Revolution, who seem to offer a striking parallel to the three composers in ques tion. Schubert is the Wordsworth of music, admitted leader of all that follow. ed, ruggedly sincere, apt to be too verbose if he has a fault, but always truthful and always (unlike too many of his followers) faultless in structure and external form; the prime mover whose importance is apt to be overshadowed by the mighty effect of his genius on his successors. Mendelsohn is the Tennyson of music; so elegant and top hatted as (4) The introduction of Time or Sight almost to be out of the movement; a
Bills.
Romantic in patent leather boots, but a (5) The subsidisation
don of silk merchants. Romantic poze the fosse pellucid bat (6) The development of the bean trade, never cheap; despised by the post There, he ang tuhy, too beauti
ful Schumann is less easy to match; perhaps Burns is the nearest possible.
(2) The encouragement of home indus
(3) The better provision of banking
facilities f
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cereals, hide, wool and also other takes himself too seriously; each
business
(9) The expansion of the egg industry is in a way an acquired tastes each at (10) The development of China's vast first seems too simple to be worth much natural resources through Sino consideration; but this very simplicity Foreign Co-operation.-Asiatic News and clear vision in time impress them Agency
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selves as the only thing of value and put these two in the very first rank of the, New Romance. Schumann's" Wid- mung." perhaps the most lovely of all love-songs is to an amorous, ditty, from a Mozartian opera exactly what Barns "Red Red Rose is to a love-song of Herrick, The so-called metaphysical The following team will represent the poeta dipped into love in order that they H.K.C.C. on Saturday. at 2.15 p.m., on might have a theme for their elegant this Club ground: R. Hancock (capt:), verses. The Romantics were lovers first TE Pearce AA. Claxton, E. J. Rand only attempted in their poems to set Mitchell, Major H. M. Edwards, Capt. H. E. Murray, "A B. Raworth, F. H Farthing, L. J. Davies, F. N. Young, and W. J. Hope,
H.E.C.C. CRAIGENGOWER,
down something of what that meant.
excellent and his execution delightful. Mr. Ore's selection was, as usual.
The Third Sonata shows Schubert at his best, especially the fantastic third move ment. The Military March I prefer as In the match on the Craigengower form; it has few contrapuntal complex 2 pianoforte transcription to its original ground, on Saturday, at 2.15 p.m., Hong ities and the three lower parts of the kong will be represented by L. D. Me. Nicoll (capt.), B. D. C. Morgan, W. W string quartetto are seldom much more Mackenzie, MM Watson, H. H. Benao we had a Prelude almost too good to be than an accompaniment Of Mendelssohn M. D. C. Sandberg, Reid, A.:S. Exell, W. Fraser, G. M. Dorkins, and J. B. Vergil's hexameters are to Homer; and true; a Fugue which was to Bach what' Way,
a chorale of the approved Mendelssohn pattern-noble chords with a rudning accompaniment of, octaves:in the; bags. Says a Home paper:-The revolution The Schumann Etudes were entirely that is being effected in Rugger through typical and most sympathetically played. the new type of forward-play was never There was a large audience, accessitat moro evident than when Gloucester woning the use of a larger room than before. a hard-fought game at Bristol by 14 points The jarring din of un-Romantic, tram- to 6. The old days when packs of the bells and motor-horns somewhat marred earthorse type anchored down in a scrum the enjoyment of an otherwiso delightful and were wakened up in time to learn concert.
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