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Hongkong, Friday, June 29th. Our Just report was dated 22nd instant Is the short story regaining its one time and in the interval the June Settlement. popularity? One of the noteworthy features a been satisfactorily put through. The of the new spring publishing season is the local market continues quiet, but there is number of collectious of short stories by rather more enquiry for Industrial stocks writers of all creeds and qualities. During the last few days, in, which prices show the e past few years there have been no short some appreciation d
stories of much literary value with the possiThe Shanghai market has been erratis ble exception of John Russell's "Where the and Cotton shares are mostly rather Purement Window" both supremely
and Thomas Burke's easier. Whering what power cun is intused
good examples
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Banks. --Hongkong and Shanghai Banks are weakened and after sales at 81,083, they are to be had at 981,075. The London price £194 (middle).
Marine and Fire Insurances.-There are myers of Cantons at 9500, North Chinas at Tls 128, Yangtses at 325 and Hong- kong Fires at $165. Union Insurance have receded to $220.
into this dicuit branch of literacy art when the author has the right touch." Ono has puly to compare the mass production" items of the monthly magazines and one of, say, Rudyard Kipling's little masterpicons to appreciate the vast difference between the really good and the very bad. It iNA
great mistake on the part of young authors to that a short story is easier suppose
to write than a full length novel. On the contrary, Shipping-Deferred Indos have been the short story calls for the exercise of ariling weak, and sales have been made very special gift and eliver craftsmanship down to $150. Hongkong, Chaton and and some of the greatest authors have Deen Macao Steamboats have been put through Star comparative failures as short story writers. at the improved pries of 8401.
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Ferries are wanted at $18).
Refineries.-China Sugars have fallen However, we still have plenty of authors who can be entertaining and cealable in any to 9. Malabons at 882 continue
neglected. stories of a few thousand words. One of them
Docks, Wharves and Godowns-Hong- is Phyllis Botteme (Mr. Forbes Dennis. who has just published a collection under and Kowloon Wharves have changed Hongkong and the title of "The Derelict and Other hands at $183 to $161; Stories (Collis and Co) The story that Whampoa Docks have been done at size. gives its name to the book has all the material Shanghai Docks have been dealt in at that an author would require for a long Tha 98 to Tls 99 and more could be
good example of how
Fongkow novel, and it is
such placed at the former rate. a theme has gained in strength by com Wharves are enquired for at Tis 200,
every respect it TA pression,
a tabloid! Lands. Hotels and Building.-Hong- novel
It is interesting, where in lunger form kong Lands have been booket at 131 to
The 4. An interim dividend of $6 per it might have been a trifle "boring.
sook, "The Liqueur share has just been declared, as com story in this is a perfectly conceived tale of howpared with 24 for the previous year. The calculating woman made away with Transfer Books of the Company will be husband who was a nuisance to her and closed from the 9th to the 23rd July, both the family in general. There is a breath of
days inclusive. Hongkong Hotels have reality about this, and the reader will fired up to 328 and $27.95 for the Old
be probably wonder whether murder can carried out in such a simple and suspicion Estates have been bought at 8251 Row- and New shares respectively. Humphreys 1989 way.
loon Lands are wanted at 380.
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But from a purely artistic point of view Phyllis Botteme's best story is undoubtedly Oils and Mining. Langkats have The Angel of the Darker Brink." Here, in strengthened and could be placed at: Tls.
splendid little cameo of war time, the 311, author touches-deep pathos in the story of Nursa Magnet and her soldier patient: It will stir the reader to infinite pity, and, it is full of womanly tenderness and sympathy,
Tronohs at 99/- and Benguets at Raubs Pare saleable at quotations. are asked for at $33 after sales at $52. shells Have come to business at 80/- bat close easier.
verie Companie-China Lights have A MODERN MUNCHAUSEN, Hem negotiated at $149 and $14.35 for Another book of short stories is "Accord. the Old and New shares respectively, ing to Gibson" (Wm. Heinemann). These Hongkong Electrics have appreciated to stories are by Mr. Denis Mackail, a writer $13.
who needs no introduction to those who Cotton Mills.-Ewos were deals in at read his joyful novel, "Bill the Bachelor." Tls. 13 early in the work, but have since The features of According to Gibson "are receded to Tk 12 Shanghai Cottons are wonderful invention and humour, and una shade easier and have come to business
amazing liar, Henry Gibson, figures in them at Tis. ng, Orientals arb naked for at
Perhaps Gibson ought not to be called Tig. 5.00.
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He was an author with a an extremely Liscellaneous-China, Providents have prolific, imagination, and these yarns atd been bought at 824. A strong and ans to a fellow member of the Cavian tained enquiry for Green Island Cements Club, who is asked to believe them lifted the price from $28.00 to 831 and gospel. Gibson was an author who
earned
an enormous income with a female nom-de-bainess has been done to a fair extent The demand ap- plume as a writer of sentimental pot-boilers. At intervening rates. Apparently he related these yarns to the pears to have slackened at the close and writer as a wecoms relief to his professional sellers prevail at $304. Dairy Farms have Bob-staff And they are, intragenus been taken at 826, Hongkong Ropes at Varna, too--romantic; fantastic, unbelievable and Watson at 418 Engineering Most of thein are extremely clever, although Constructions have been sold at $7.00. it must be said that Mr. Mackai has Deals have been made in Hongkong scarcely maintained the fine qualities of the Realty's at $2.50. There are enquiries for first three or four in the book.
Peak Trans at 812, Watson, at #18). Canton Tees at $0.80 and Sincerest 812).
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Alor Gajahs........
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story of Gibson at the ghost in his. Kedah
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is the Well touch about The Invention of Professor Salt. This wonder ful little apparatus enables the professor to see things happening all over again, and all goes well until Mrs. Salt takes an inter ested peep into it and seep certain things cewith dire she ought not to have Reen- results to the apparatus, the professor, and Henry Gibson! Then there is another good haunted room, in
medicine that was a B certain in mortal life. Moral: another terror added to the Unknown!
"Gibson and the Rivals is in the spirit of true comedy, and deals with an elderly law clerk who was most anxious to secure the championship as writer of letters to the
itor; how the contestants struggled heroi cally towards the publication of the 500th. letter; and how their rivalries were finally ingeniously ended. This story is really funny, as is also the one in which the fiery HONGKONG SHARE MARKET Colonel Hexagon Turpentine makes love unwittingly to his own mother
THE OCCULT.
Another fine collection of the short story. writer's art is "Stranger Things by Mildred Cram (Cassell and Co.): This writer is ong of America's foremost authors, and is hailed
ag Gt. as a notable discovery as far. Gt. Britain American readers, by the way, is concerned. are more partial to the short story than Eng lish people, and, generally speaking, they are better served by their authors, than we are. Monis and Booth
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In
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story: In "Stranger Things" Mildred Cram deals
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who makes every word tell, and her stories are fresh and original in both subject ent. The solutions of the pro-
And treatment
pounded
mysteries are not over elborated, and the author leaves the imaginative realer much to browɛn'upon.
As illustration of Mildred Cmm's_ppwer
of deserted the dead body and pushed
this quotation will suffice:
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watched
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