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Dep. 5,40 9,15 10.30 11,40 15,00
8.50-924 10,539
1.03 954 10.51
7:16 9,40 11,04
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12.21
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19.53
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Art. 7.43 10.18 11.28 12.20 19.38
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STRANGE CHURCH IN A STATION.
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Forters and clerks at Denmark Hill railway station, South London, often work to the accompaniment of hymns sung lustily by a congregation in a dis used waiting-room next to the booking office.
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The Mystical Church of the Com just enough to save a parent's face, but not a fraction of what the education forter" is one of London's most curious costs. For reasons like these, our City churches. Babies are baptised in a room that was once only used by impatient Hall Library is, and will remain travellers waiting for their traits; solitude. One can talk about it, without funeral services are read in it, and a destroying it."
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This church has been in existence in its present premises for about six years. The station staff accept it as part of the ordinary surroundings of their daily
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Those who have only a limited appetite for sermons on slipping boulders and books on burat nullahs, bave found it very hard, "during the last week, to avoid the nauses of repletion. Gossip, of both sexes, whose sound sleep deprived them of the exhilarating present fears which ushered in the nineteenth, have been!
SOME OF THE TREASURES. diligent in concocting for themselves an orgy of posterior terror, by figuring out Nevertheless its cool unfathomed re- the alternative consequences if such-and- cesses bear many a book of purest such another boulder had slipped or thought serene. Queen Victoria's Leares so-and-so nullah had burst in a different from the Journal of Our Life in the place. Ope wants to get away from Highlands, and the Early Tears of the Hongkong, not to escape the storms, but Prince Consort, inscribed, signed and to avoid the eternal descriptive re-dated by the royal hand, lie in an h iterations of the sensation-mongers, and pretentious glass case near the door the inficite advice on how not to what These books do not lie open at the in- by those who don't. Fortunately there is scribed fly-leaf; oor the case locked, in Hongkong one sure place of refuge. If you want to see the writing, as would It is a place where eyes are too busy angely be the ambition of everyone who to be either rubbering with greed for the can read and write in this Colony, you wonderful, or half-shut with the superior simply open the case and take ont joy of advice-giving. That place is the the book. It is to be hoped that, if Public Library.
ever the mighty earthquake arrives to AN APPRECIATION.
destroy Hongkong, some one will remem
The leader and founder of the church ber to dash in. and seize these relies on Contrary to the general opinion of the way to the first launch. In another is a woman named Mrs. Elizabeth Mary those who have never visited it, this corner of the library, there is a magni. Eagle Skinner. She is the mother of a library, although a solitude, is by no fcent two volume Fairbairn's Book of large family, and during the war she son's dental practice alive by means a desert. It may not in recent rests, which everybody ought to study kept a times have been ardently cultivated. But before ordering new note-paper. It acting for him in her spare time. there were times when careful husband-contains crests for all surnames. On one
Her official title is the Messenger." men planted with care, and the fruits of shelf you will find that epoch-making Most of the members of the church their labour, are still to be enjoyed in a book Essays and Revieme, side by side call me Mother," she said to à Daily miscellaneous harvest ranging from with E. V. Lucas's The Gentlest drt; Express representative, but my hus Latin folice, such as De Origine et Usu and on another John Buchan's The band, who is a schoolmaster, says it is Obeliscorum, to Aly Memoirs by ExBattle of the Some cheek by jowl are ridiculous for them to do so.' Kaiser William IL, and from The not to be seen everywhere, but catch the Facts of "Great Britang with critiques, eye of the casual visitor, are a magni lives and notes, in sixty-one double ficent edition of Dante, a Tennyson's volumes of 1807, to the collected poetry Enoch Arden, fresh from the press in the of Masefield, in one volume of 1995. To-1 year of its first publication, a liberaled with mystical signs and coloured condemn the library as incomplete, and supply of the best biographies, Grove's say that you can never find the book you Dictionary of Manc and Musicians, and added, and the signs we use refer to want in it, is about as sane & critician thirty or forty neatly bound volumes of some of the inner orders of that society.
Archer's five
My work means everything to me. as to declare that the pumping station modern French fiction. ought sever to have been built where volume edition, with his own transia have had visions ever since I can re- boulder might fall on it. Anybody who tions, of Ibsen, is there, and much read. member. These visions have helped me bas gone wide in the world using So is Hutchinson's if Winter Comet; tremendously, and it is through them libraries, knows that there are not more and Professor Saintsbury's Scrap Book that I have been specially directed to than one or two in existence where a And there is God's plenty of others as prepare the orders for the services in my reader can depend on finding the book interesting as those, to suit all, tastes.church." he wants. One ought to enter the ordi- But the greatest glory of the library is nary library in the same spirit that one its collection of bound periodicals. The sets out to dine at the average house; not Time is there from 1889, and is almost expecting some certain dish, nor resolved complete for that period. Volume upon to be pleased with nothing else; but volume of The Quarterly Review, Corn-CALL FOR GOVERNMENT ACTION. hoping that among the dishes offered hill. Fraser's, Blackwood, and Mar there will be many which, when seen, one millan's are there, and if they were ar-
RANGOON, June 14th.. wants. Eatered in that spirit, Hong-ranged with the tidiness that has been
A correspondent of the Rangoon kong's Public Library is a very good devoted to the Times one would have library. Such is its charm that he who the satisfaction of being able to tell at Gaineet on the abolition of slavery in KING
ernment on drops in to spend fifteen minutes there, a glance whether they are complete, or while waiting for the evaporation of the whether the most famous volumes have the Hukawag Valley at a cost of just morth-end queue at the bank, will End slipped away. These periodicals are of under two lakhs rupees [about £15,000] that his fifteen minutes swell unnoticed. great value, especially to serious-atu.invites attention, as others have done
to an hour.
HONGKONG'S ATTITUDE.
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denta, and are very rare East of Suez. before him, to the great number of girl It is in them that one reads the authentic slaves to be found throughout the length history of the modern world, with its and breadth of Burma. These girls are It would be rash to celebrate the peace great industrial and democratic develop-given, or sold, for life as domestic ser- and coolness of this solitude, if there ment Besides them Addison's Specta Vants by their indigent parents, and when were any chance of its being disturbed. for is a gold watch to a gold mine. the girls are badly treated, the parents Favete linguis would be one's motto; not What Diderot and his associates were toare unable to reclaim them, owing to lack only for solitude'a sake, but for the the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of money. The correspondent, who sigus sake of the cross word puzzle nercbats these nineteenth century periodicals are himself Thadaw, states that he has seen who End the quiet of these precincts the to us. They are the real encyclopaedia slave girls mercilessly thrashed for the best place in Hongkong to practise their of modern ideas. No educated man can alightest fault, and he appeals to the mental gymnastics, and also for the sake look at shelves full of them without wish Government to emancipate girls who are of the serene attendant who indicates the ing to spend weeks among them. They thus cruelly treated and wrongfully en- catalogue by a gesture as gravely as the are a sight as inspiring as the Forum in custodian of some select reading-rocm Rome. They represent the intellectual where there are ranks of testy readers effort of generations of great men who insistent on silence. But there is no wrote the English language, and in many other than those employed on 8t. An- fear of a rush on this preserve. Hong-cases decided the destiny of the English drew's nights, which might lure the
visitor into this neglected haunt. Firstly, TL: Kowloon No. 3. Tel, Ad: “PALACE, kong people are not readers. They are peoples.
it would be interesting to see "an occa- valetudinarians: but it is their physical
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Three Minutes from Kowloon Whart, Ferry sional display of important documents health and their social health, rather than their mental health, about which The conclusion to be drawn from this from the Colony's archives. They could
Wharf and Railway Station. they are concerned. Consequently leisure cursory review of the library, is, that be shown, in locked glass cases, and
Entirely under English Management is devoted to strenuous outdoor exercise; whatever books are presented to the under guard, as is customary for such
Electric light and Fans Throughout." or lethargic social intercourse. The as library, will find themselves in the com- exhibitions. To most of us the origin of
EVERY ROOM WITH PRIVATE BATH. sumption is that the physical exercise pany of good books that have seen ser Hongkong is as remote as the discovery will ensure living long enough to enjoy vice. Those mysterious people who find of America, and we know a little about
Lounge, Bar and Billiard Booms, Unrival a long retirement, if a man is engaged the books might be advised to provide local affairs of fifteen years ago as of the in any ordinary business; and that the some books of plays; the dramatic section ɓfteenth century. Old maps, and ometal rd Cuisine under the persons supervision of social practice will ensure his getting on of the library being weak. The proxi documents are a stimulus to much more the Proprietrem. well enough to retire in magnificence, mity of theatre, under the same interesting conversation than that. pro-
TERMS MODERATE and know how to live ever after. With management as the library, may have vided by barst drains. Secondly, some
Special Terms to Families on application to the physical and social life so carefully checked the supply of dramatic, works; thing might be done in the way of pic
Mrs. J. E. OXBERRY, cultivated, mental activity can be taken just as, it is said, the cupidity of Elizatores. A lilmory is in a sense, o
Proprietress for granted, or as provided by work, bethan theatre managers, anxious that panorama history of literature, and, as Therefore Hongkong is not on the whole the public should come to the theatre and such, the history of a civilisation. A a reading place. At least it is not the sec, prevented the printing of Shake collection of famous pictures is an alter sort of place where one would believe speare's plays in books, which would native viata of human progress. Time that a lady had denied herself a new have made it possible for the public to was when the pictorial vista could be 45 the fruits of a hat because she wanted to buy the new, stay at home and read. We know that provided only Dictionary of European Literature, or it was as difficult for Londoners to get millionaire's pastime in purchasing the But now-a-daya that a man had missed his afternoon's to the Globe, as it is for Peakites to get original masterpieces. golf because the new number of the to the City Hall..
coloured printing has reached a stage of blue and buff" had just arrived. If It is sometimes assumed that it is the achievement at which the reproduction of one does read, one feels that the best function of a library to entice people into nictures is as accurate as the reproduc books cannot be got except in libraries the company of books, and that a library, tion of most books. It would be a good where one paya So there is the Club like ours, which does not seem to do this thing if some of those who are to make Library, the Book Club, and the Helena to any marked extent, is therefore use- fortunes in the next boom, would take May. But public library in Hong-leag I don't agree with this motion; an anticipatory vow to devote a small kong is no more likely to be frequented because I think that the impulsion of sum, for the purchase of coloured repro than the house of poor zelations, in a mental and spiritual needs, rather than ductions of the masterpieces of European city where ore has many sets of rich the enticement of massed bookcases, is painting, from Giotto's Saint Francois relations; and yet it is in many things, what brings people into libraries. And recevant les Stigmates, to some of the richer than the other libraries. It is yet I feel tempted to suggest two means, latest tired tigers and languishing, sniffed at, like a free school in a town (Continued on next column.)
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