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DR. LIM BOON KENO CRITICISES.
GOVERNOR'S UNIVERSITY
SPEECH.
Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Principal of the Amoy University, in a letter to the Singapore Free Press, replies to the re- cent speech by His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi, at the Hongkong University, on the shortcomings of the Chinese languagage, as follows:-
WEDDING IN KOWLOON.
WYATT BLAIR.
A pretty wedding, took place at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday, when the contracting parties were J. R. G. Wyatt, son of Mra. Wratt, of Shrewsbury, England, and the late Mr. Wyatt, of Bournemouth, and
Isabella Alice Blair, of the Kowloon'
British School, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Blair, of Pettb. Western
With due respect to Sir Cicil Clem-Australia, and formerly of Inverness and enti,, whose learned address delivered Lindsay offeinted.
Campsie, Scotland. The. Rev. G. R.
at the Hongkong University on the The bride, who was given in marriage difficulties of the Chinese language shows
I
"few,
silver lice, and “having a train of satin and silver lace appliqué. She wore an embroidered tulle veil and a wreath of of white roses and maiden hair fern. orange blossoms and carried" a bouquet
that he has given the subject much by Mr. R. E Atwell, at the "Asiatic. Petroleum Co., was charmingly attired thought and study, I beg to differ from in white satin beauté with trimmings of His Excellency's opinions, on points which are of great importance.
(1) There is no Fukien dialect in which the word for Tea is pronounced Tia Sir Cecil alleges., Ten was originally brought to Europe evidently by the Dutch who had factories in Formosa, from Amoy, where Tea is called Tay just as the Malays all over Malaya pro- nounce it. The French word "the con firms this. The German thee is also sounded Tay, The natives of London in Cockney fashion propounce Tea more like the Malay Tay than Ti.
Miss Evelyn Thompson, the bridesmaid, was attired in apricot crepe-de-Chine en suite. She carried a bouquet of sweet trimmed with deep silver lace, and hat
peas and roses.
Mrs. R. E. Atwell, as matron of honour, wore a dress of black satin beauté, trim mings and cape of Chantilly lace, with medallions of beaten silver uppfiquéd on gown. She also were a smart French chapeau, and" carried a bouquet of red roses and maiden bair fern
(2) The differences of dialects in China are due to the same kind of causes After the ceremony a reception was which produce dialects elsewhere. The held at "Kingsclere, Kowloon, when the Mandarin language is now the lingua following were among the guests: Mr. franca of all educated Chinese. In P. W. Southern, Capt. J. Thompson, Amoy University, students from all parts | R.A. S.C., and Mrs. Thompson, M. E of China speak Mandarin, and listen Ralphs, Capt. G. A. Clements and Mrs. to lectures in Mandaria: Throughout Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Stark, Mr. and Malaya, through the movement started Mrs. Nightingale. Mr. and Mrs Brown,
by me and others in 1804, Mandarin is Mr. and Mrs. Way, and Mr. Handley now the common speech of all educated Chinese.
"interested in the affairs of the world'
Pegg.
The honeymoon is being spent at Repulse Bay, the bride's going-away costume being of deep wine coloured crêpe satin trimmed with French em- bossed velvet, worn with a beige hat.
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A piano solo by Rachmaninoff was Dent. Lia order, This selection-Beethoven s beautiful Variations in C. minor-was heartily applauded, as it indicated very
noticeable.
(3) Mistranslation Buddhist sutras. Sir Cecil Clementi evidently forgets that many Sanskrit words appear in Budd- hist literature, just as many Latin terms occur in Catholic publications. The Buddhista read the futras in Sanakri: written in Chinese phonetically. With regard to the name Kwan Yin-surely the Buddhist pioneers never intended to
A pew talking machine, said to be strikingly the complete elimination of the convey such "nonsense". as "overlook- ing sound" to the practient Chinese.
one of the outstanding musical events objectionable banjo twang With deep regret the death has been of the season, was demonstrated be in almost all previous piano recordings. The Chinese word Yin does not neces announced of Mrs. Emma Dickenson sarily mean sound; thus Fu Yin-literaSmith, wife of the Rev. Dr. Arthur lore a gathering of well-known Colonists. The full, rich tones of the grand piano ly "happiness-sound which seem quite ridiculous enough, but they are the Smith, a prolific writer on Chinese educational authorities, musicians and issued into the room with a startling
fidelity and purity. equivalent of the Greek word for gospel. subjects and best known perhaps as the teachers by Messra. S. Moutrie and Co.,
A violin rendition of "Aloha Oe," by Ewan Yin is the title of the Goddess author of "Chinese Characteristics." of Mercy" and is an abbreviated farm Death overcame Mrs. Smith at Tung Lid, at the Roof Garden at the Hong
Fritz Kreisler demonstrated a marked of Kuan Shi Yin p'u-ses, the hsien, Chibli, at 8 o'clock in the morning kong Hotel last evening. Boddisatva whose interests are in this of January 28th from peritonitis, deceas
The machine is known as the Ortho- improvement in this branch of recording, world. Kuan equals regard, or looked having lived to the ripe age of 76. after: Yin equals noise, sound, effects; Mra Smith had been ill for almost two phonic Talking Machine, and it is previously one of the most successful Shih Yin equals the world's noise he.. months preceding her final illness..
his Stradivarius were reproduced with world's affairs. Kuan Yia then means Wisconsin,.U.S.A.; was are of the oldest musical authorities to be not less than such warmth and colour that it seemed The deceased, who was born in Beloit, described by acoustical experts and own. The wonderful tonal qualities of quite a very different thing from the living missionaries of the American 100 per cent. more efficient than any almost as though the artiste himself were
1 of overlooking sound"- nonsense
of Commissioners for Foreign previous development in the reproduc
Mixed choral selections Missions, and came to China with her tion of sound from a record. The private from "No! No! Nanette" next showed
in the room. which Sir Cecil made it out to be..
husband in 1872 Her golden wedding was celebrated a couple of years ago, demonstration last evening had been the capacity of the new instrument to when she and her husband received many arranged to give leaders in local musical reproduce the combined male and female onours and congratulations, not to men-circles an opportunity to hear the instruces without losing in any degree the their Chinese friends, among whom they ment before it makes its formal bow, at a characteristic qualities of each. tion expressions of appreciation from had spent their life.
public demonstration which will take The burial took place in the Tunghaien
A. Füll ensemble of Creatore's band Church Cemetery.
place on Thursday.
playing "Syncopation-Symphonic" march The challenge of His Excellency to the academicians of China is absurd and
Developed upon the same basic prin- next gave opportunity for an exhibition ridiculous since the greatest Oriental
ciples which made possible long-distance volume and distinctive timbre of the in- of the brasses at their best, the sonorous
scholars have acknowledged their debt
THE WATER SUPPLY. telephone communication, the Ortho-struments coming through without the to the Chinese translations of Sanskrit. tests. The Chinese were not "bafled," as Sir Cecil imagined, but had a definite storage in the
The monthly Water Return gives the phonic Talking Machine is described as faintest suggestion of "blasting," John Philip Sousa, upon hearing this number mechanical instrument which repro- reserves supplying the object in merely making phonetic trans City as 1,018 million gallons on February duces accurately practically the entire said: "For the first time I have heard lation just as the Catholics write down ist against 1,332 million on the sams
a reproducing instrument with a soul. range of muzical sound. Its outstand in English." Pater noster" and "ave date last year. The consumption during ng virtue is said to be the elimination Those men, are playing from their hearts. have really heard a band on a talking maria!" purposely, not because they de January was 213 million gallons againas of all uamusical vibrations which war- machine." not know the English equivalents.
The programme was concluded with a (4) Chinese only a kind of linguistic not stated in the return the supply was
269 million in January, 1925. Though red reproductions on old-type instru
ments, and the extraordinarily faithful splendid rendition of the "Marche bed of Procrustes" fit only to hold no doubt intermittent during January heretofore could not be reproduced at Its preponderance of brass and immense preservation of tone colour. Notes which Blave," by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Chinese ideas and unsuitable for word, 1926, and is stated as partially inter- all, or were so distorted as to be un variety of tone colour offered a test eren and thoughts alien to the Chinese. I mittent in 1925.
It. may be of interest to remind your readers of the fact that Kuan Yin re- fused to enter Paradise till hell fire should be extinguished, and the last lost soul should have been extricated. Hence the title of Goddess of Mercy, given to one of the many transformations of this. celebrated Boddisatva.
DELIGHTFUL PROGRAMME.
AN INTERVIEW.
and
I have myself heard most abstract lecutes in Chinese on logic, psychology, biology and evolution, and I have myself Jaeger Pure Wool talked on fairly abstruse problems of agreement with Sir Cecil in his advocacy "Boldiers Chorus from Faust, sung by | produce them in such a way that you can
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sincerely regret to say that the distin- At Kowloon the storage is 201 million pleasant or almost unrecognizable, are guished orator is totally wrong, although gallons against 36 million on February now said to be given forth by the symphony orchestra, not to mention it is true foreigners and it difficult to 1st last year and 983 million month Orthophonic instrument in all their truetion, in its tremendous scope, #summed
reproducing instrument This selec express technical matters in Chinese, ago. The consumption during the month beauty." and even Chinese scholars find it difficult was 70 million gallons against 64 million
Instruments which in the past have Orthophonic Talking Machine,
up all the accomplishment of the to understand English. But this has in January last year, and 63 million in been the despair of the talking-machine afforded a fitting climax to a notable nothing to do with the nature of the December, 1995, with full supply in all laboratories are now recorded and remusical event language.
months. It will be seen that Kowloon produced with uncanny accuracy, say ex- Einstein has been translated into has now little more than 3 months supply Ferts who have heard the new instru Japanese and Chinese. Every subject of in the Reservoirs.
ment.. The piano reproduction is "That In an interview, Mr. H. A. Jones, who modern science has been ably translated The Water Authority notifies by adver of the real instrument, with all its conducted the demonstration, explained into intelligible Chinese. Japanese have tisement to-day that owing to the Chinese magnificent range. The harp can be dis-that heretofore there have been three chief used Chinese entirely in their tranel New Year holidays a constant supply of tinguished clearly the drums weave defects in the talking machine-limited tions. The modern Europeans have had water will be given in all rider main their resonant background, and the range, limited volume, and failure t to fall back upon Greek and Latin roots; districts to-morrow and Friday.
various other instruments preserve their bring out clearly the tone colour of the except the Germans who delight in their
true individuality, while blending with sounds recorded, that indefinatie quality own uncantle polysyllables of Teutonic
fidelity in the ensemble.
by which it is possible to distinguish be origin
tween the various instruments or voices. The fact that certain relations, have
On the other hand, it is also a fact
even when playing notes of the same to be adopted does not mean that that certain specifically 'Chinese ideas A varied and comprehensive musical pitch. These difficulties," he continued, translation is not possible. Why, the can hardly be translated literally into programme was arranged to denionstrate have now been removed. The Ortho Arabic numerals and Greek letters in English, or any European language. the capacities of the new instrument in phonio Talking Machine is capable of re- English do not diminish the value of The Chinese have many terms expressing every field. The selections ranged from producting sounds as high as the highest English works in mathematics.
relations and relationships that require vocal solos to full band and orchestral note of the piccolo, or as low as the lengthy descriptions. But this is really ensumables, with a plentiful admixture of deepest tons of the bass viol. It can re- not peculiar to Chinese.
dance and specialty selections. Pat produce these tones as soft as a whisper. (6) It is a pleasure to find myself in First on the programme was the or as loud as a shout. And it can re- modern medicine, such as Erhlich's side of a second language, and of English as a full male choraus of forty, as against readily identify the notes of the violin, chain theory and Professor Leo of the such a language; though his reasons are the maximum number of twenty-ive the cornet, the flute and every other University of Amoy discourses on the not sound. Chinese is not a very re- possible under the old method. This variety of instrument or voice! most recondite questions of argenic and fractory medium for interpretation of selection is notable in that it carries the "One of the greatest achievements of analytical chemistry entirely in Chinese Western idens." English as a second tenors to B flat, and has a very deep and the new method," he said, "in the The fact is that Chinese is unique language is necessary in order to hasten strong bass. After it had been played successful reproduction of instruments, among the languages of the world. Its the nequisition of Western thought and first upon the new instrument and then which before could not be properly re- contemporaries of 3,000 B.C. have all culture, since the number of translated upon the old, a bifrst of laughter testified corded. been dead long ago-even those of 500 books is still inadequate.
to the striking contrast in range, volume The drum for the first time sounds B.C are quite extinct. The classical I have ventured to make the above and richness of tone. In this case, as like a drum," he said. The harp languages of Greece and Rome are only criticism since the high position of in the following selection, the perfor sounds like a harp, and the piano, one kept alive in the schools and Univer- Bir Cecil Clementi may mislead many mance of the Orthophonic Talking of the most difficult of all instruments sitice. But the language of Confucius readors of his speech into thinking that Machine was greeted with waves of ap- to record, comes into its own at last with is still the language of China to day the Chinese language is really the plause from the listeners
an absolutely faithful and meritorious and of the Far East for the Koreana, linguistic bed of Procustio" which His The next selection was a Fox trot reproduction. It is obvious what this Japanesc, and Annsmites can com Excellency the Governor of Hongkong Don't bring Lulu" whose deep and will mean to the world of umsic." muniente with the Chiness by means of seems to believe it to be. Chinese news melodious tonal gradations contrasted A public presentation of the Ortho the Chinese script.
Poje papers to-day discuss daily and comment with the brisk and sparking vocal duet phonic Victoria will take place at Of course, there are difficulties in upon world events and scientific progress which followed. This novelty, Miss B. Moutrie & Co.'s store on Thursday, translation but they occur in all without the slightest difficulty, and the My Bwie was ing by the Happiness beginning at 10 am, and continuing languages and are of the same nature; University of Amoy, or any Chinese Boga, affording a fine example of what until 0 p.m and they depend upon the idiosyncracies University for that matter, will be ex-is now possible in the way of capturing The Orthophonic instrument will be of different authors, wishing to adopt ceedingly pleased to send to Houkkong a rapid dialogue and fine nuances of tonal played in comparison with the old-type different roots and diferent interprata lecturer to discourse upon any Western expression. The very difficult reproduc instrument, to given its heaters.n tiona
topic in pure and elegant Chinese attion of the sounds was unusually accurate conception of the vast musical (Continued on next columin.)
clear. Any moment.
advance that has been made