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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1931.
BOOKS and READERS
SCENES AND FORTRALS"
Manning
MAKING THE PAST LIVE
APAGAIN.
BY is it just to trent a great man (Peter
in this fashion, and virtually to attribute to him in the Vatican an underlying sceptician of which thare is no of evidence ? It ja open to any critic of public men to show
al inference of a certain policy, what, in his judgment, is the logic-
but it is unjust to attributs to the
ference! What policy Pope Leo men themselves such a logical-in-
Frodoric Davies, 78, 6d.) If the author, had never written We' this book Hor. Privates would have remained for only. à few readers among their privato discoveries in 1000 writes Edward Shillito in the Sunday 2 mes. The later book has rescued the earlier for a much wider audience and dolight in has any
Person or System;" Again, a strength of Hinduiam in its Conviction that there is justice at the heart of the universe. The Christian holds to this also, but whereas the Christian thinks of the justice of a perfectly loving Person, the Hinda has in mind 'more the Justice of a System. By my deeds I inherit inevitably a good or an Cvil Karma. There is an Indian story-which many have compared with that of the Prodigal Son. By his evil-life a man gets himself into sore trouble; at last he, regrets his evil deeds. But while the regrett of the Prodigal Son are for his Sin, those of the Brahman are of necount of the evil kärma in which he is now entangled. While ono is no reader who repentance the other is remorse, The conviction of the just roward the discussion of great matters with of his deeds has led the Hindu to insight, irony, and wit will doubt the doctrines of Re-inchhations with the wisdom of this re-issue with All the ironlike" and "Heartiess in-
its additions. humanities which are associated with itThe reinorse of the Brai man in the story is because he has a lost his good karma and may look
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We noted at the beginning the Hindu's passion "freedom, for detachment. This is a beautiful longing, and the world has much to learn from India in this respect. Yet hero again' Hinduism has gone
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the individual were concerned man philosopher, who saya: "I wasands of years later, in argo, when his father dies, and on the 12 to the 28 The desire for detachment in this seeking for a beauty that is not of chan leads to an attitude towards one's neighbour which is summed this world. It was at Corinth. 1 up in the Hindu's Golden Rule-met a man named Faul, Apart One ought not to do to another altogether, from his study of St. what would be disagreeable to him- self," the negative is the charac Paul himself, sympathetic as that in this portrait of The Friend of Paul" gives a most fascinating picture of the countryside in which the cultivated Roman lived in days when men could recall Seneca and Paul. In the end the Roman finds that we are Christians without Christ" but he did not fail to dis cover behind Prsial, the man of fire, whose life was an odyssey, full of arduous endeavour and storm, an- other figure, a figure of singular beauty, before Whom even the fire
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Quite possibly Mr. Pocock will speaking, his treatment of it seems he accused of being sentimental.
Two Quite possibly he will be told that chronicles more picturesque than things do not often happen in to be curiously arbitrary. the prehistorie romance of Ogo and just this way. But he has written Wooma and the eighteenth-century one of those jolly stories which put tragedy of their descendants, Seth Shollett and Charity Noke, could you into a good temper, and his collection of oddities is well worth hardly have been devised. Both are meeting Gran'ma, in particular, vivid and dinely dramatik; both is a gem; so is the Worf'm Wahf'm; lift the veil in a quite remarkable and you will not find it difcuit CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME
ORIENT Ogo breaks the law uf sib. He believe in any of the Lamburus themselves It is good entertain- ment of a kind which is not too takes Wooma for his woman, not knowing that she is of his blood. common in these psychological days, To save her from a hoivible "death
MR LOCKE'S LAST NOVEL he admits his crime, but esenpes punishment because the moment of
"The Shorn Lamb' is the last. is tria coincidis with Hawkon's of Mr. Locke's novels. It is not successful bid for the leadership his best, but, If you are prepaved It is our sends of the divine jusof Paul'e ardour flickered and was of the tribe. Soth, who lives in to accept an improbability or two, Lice which drives us to out knees to tamed-the Christ. Whom mad had the same corner of Sussex, uses ly it makes very good reading. The confess our sins. And while we crucified and Who had redeemed change Ogu's own wespon to kill theme is old, but the treatment is want freedom from the power of mon from sin and death. Bat Charity when he finds that she is now. Who but Mr. Locke would in we do not expect to be let of Him they soon to have fashioned his half-alster. And the world goes have dared to sentence his hero to the consequences of our sin. It it out of their own weary lives theiron. At the dawn of time the woman five years' imprisonment in the last in this Sacrament of the death of blood and tears." Faith such as Flint, shows the tribe into which chapter 1 And this hero, be it not Christ that wo beat bee the gravity theirs was the precasion of children she has married that milk from aed, the Bir Brotherton Drake who of sin, but here also we can be and of simple folk; but Serenus cow is good. In the days of King-impersonating his twin brother, cleansed in the ocean of divine love could not put away his philo George III. Farmor Noke plants is not punished. without due cause-
Hero we offer all that we are and sophical provoóupation.
his eced with a now-fangled ma. Nevertheless, Mr. Locke demande that we have for God's Service, ba
chine, Under Koor, the hunters your sympathy for him, and he is cause a Christian must sit loose The Pops and. Renan,
There is one question to which gather to enther ux with mine certainly a better man than his to life and possessions and be de
host, the postical Mr. Bailey, the supposedly respectable brother. tached but, this is only in order the treatment of Leo XIII in theristici lap up their beers
His adventures, moreover, are that we may build more effectively essay "The Paradise of the Disil:
sulliciently entertaining, and as the Kingdom of Love on earth lusioned" will give rise. The au-
always, there is a Packish element amonget our fellowmen.
thor represents Rezan as welcoming Finally we may gladly let the thead Pups to the Parridise of
about them. enrapst Hindu recall us to our duty the Tncredulous There they dis of putting religion fret and all cuss with wit and candour, the THEATRE ROYAL along the way of life: There end policy of the Church and the fu- ture of human, înstitutions, He takes it upon hinar to assume not only what the Pope had done or nid, but his sobre underlying estimate of the Church and of. Its people. He makes him say →→
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Mit recognises story, you may remember, "about the only the inward spirit, that in discovery and theft of the Holy Many forming and subtile range which Grail. The accessor the week-end off Turnabout Island, alono poem. capable of interpreting Dimensions," is an equally curious about 300 miles north of Hong the righteousness of God a'religion fantasy-but in every way the let The Jackanapes Jacket is more Kong, between Amoy and Foochow at silence and sudden iluminutter book War in Heaven had Interesting as a picture of life in ir, according to the latest report, ation, religion of patient hope of its dull and even silly moments; Hampton Coars Palace to-day than total wrecka na skarved yesterday standing, s
resignation, of a tacit undor. Many Dimensions demands your it is a purder mystery. Yet it apply delighted attention throughout, is not without its excitements and A missako was. morning by Messrs. Thoreson & Co. Renan answers that such are whether you fegard it as an excitit in hardly likely that the reader the local agents; to the effect that ligion is scarely oho to satisfying thriller, a gentle satire on our will guess why or by whom Gener all her holds were flooded, but the mentre en methods of government, or the al Hamilton was murdered, or what master and brew were safe,
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