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WORK OF F. W. H. MYERS.
A BRILLIANT VICTORIAN.
MR. FENWICK'S ADDRESS TO ENGLISH ASSOCIATION.
A lecture of E. W. 11. Myers was delivered by Mr. A. H. Fenwick members of the local branch of the English Association at the funt meeting of the season held at the Cathedral Hal yesterday. Sir William Hurnell, presiding at the meeting, confirmed the minutes, of The previous meeting which were read, by Professor Simpson (Seere tary.")
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AN IRISH TRAGEDY,
An interesting traffic ensE Central Magistracy yesterday be tore Mr. Scholield was the prose ention of Alla Pitta, an Indian matur driver, for nzigligent driv- ing in. Chater Road and soliciting for passengers,
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Mr. L. H. V. Booth, A.S.P., on whose complaint defendant 'wai † summoned, stated that në 11,40 p.m. April 4, he was with Mr., Burlingham, the Kowloon Division. at Superintendent of Police, and Mrs. Depth in Pedder Street, np.
In addressing the meeting, Mr.ronching the junction of Chater Fenwick anid that he had chosen
Bond, Defendant's ear was ala-
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MISS MARJORIE BOWEN'S ONE MILLION FACED WITH
NEW NOVEL.
Sailors and Grog. When his ship was crossing the Equator he gave his men extra Bowen. Collins. Ss. 6d. net.
liquor and even liberty to get Said a French eritie: "We each drunk if without noise or quarrel of us make in some degree an his-ling." Sailors," he reflects, as he torical novel when we open the pages of the historians; for we fill in, according to our own fashion, the outline they trnec." Miss Mar- jorie Bowen quotes the passage in which this sentence.odeurs as apologia for the historical novel,
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FW.H. Myers as the subject of tionary or nearly stationary out.atly drane her method, for it is hia paper because it had always side Messes, Komor's. Another car seemed to him that Myers was one is nearly stationary was at the (of the most interesting men living | stand on the left hand side" untside
during the latter part of the nitio- | L'iimann's. tenth century!
Frederic Willing leury Myers was born in 1943 nt Keswick, in Cumberland. His father was the Rev. Frederic Myers, perpetual curate of St. John's, Keswick. I 1458 he I went to school nt Chelten- ham, where his great ability and particularly his poetic powers were at unce-recognised.
Myers as a Post.
After tracing Myers' distinguish
We, were walking along," and Mr. Both, "and the Intter ear, which was on its side of the road, came towards us. The other car, driven by defendant, in a race to was the other ear, eut
aeross the stand at 5 miles an hour. There
Defendant's Record,
OWN Inert
to the reader's imagination that she appeals throughout with her intense imaginative gift. Her novels are always ad mirally denmented. But we for get the history in the story; never does she make the mistake, so often made by Scott and his successors at home and abroad, of seeming to impart information for its own sake..
Employments could be read with
So it comes about that "Brave
enters this incident in his diary are indeed unaccountables: Grog is with them the liquor of Life, their summum bonum. Yet with. out these anaccountables, what were Old England? Why, soon a Province of France!"
Perhaps Captain Pasley had not hiinself an entirely clear conscience in the matter of liquor. At lonat, he made a surprisingly nicek answer (for him) to one of his men whom he had ordered to be flogged for being drunk on duty and who there upon accused him of similar lapse Part of the account of this curious incident runs:
·STARVATION. ·
THOUSANDS GIVEN RELIEF.
Sianfu, April 21.– Famine condi- tions in Central Shensi ara still neute. One-third of the total aren is seriously affected and roughly eng million people are in a stato of starvation. In many districta north of the Wei tiver no crops have been planted owing to lack of seed. Whola villages are desert- ed, houses torn down, and the timber, farm implements and cattle
il sold.
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In the loss affected arens tho crops planted are doing well. The recent heavy rains have saved the
situation and there should be a splendid harvest in these districts. The increased food supply conse quent upon a good harvest will probably be enough to meet the needs of all, having regard to the fact that the population has been reduced by famine to the extant of two to three millions.
The immediate, problem is how best to tide these starving people over the low remaining weeks to harvest. Grain distributing cen tres have been opened up in the worst affectód arras and many thousands are, receiving benefit in) this way. Ten refugee centres for famine children wore two years ago and are still being maintained. Generous holp has come in from all sources, both Chinese and foreign, and strenuous efforts are being put forth to save as many starving folk as possible.
established
Flog'd Samuel Hall for Drunken- ness and Mutiny, who told me that 1'had declared I would Flog every Manaw drunk, and that he had seen me so ance having Com pany on board in a harbour. I confessed that he had reason to say that I was that day in Liquor, but there was a considerable dif- ference I had no duty to do, nud always retained sufficient sunso to by next July-it depends on whe. walk quietly to my bed,
wire-rickshes. there at the time, but unse rickshas should not have been the keenest interest by ODD who there." Mr. Booth added: "I have knew nothing of Irish history dur- ing the critical years 1069-01 Few nyver seen a car going so fast in
ever Among the extremists will Chater Rond." He and Mr. Bur.quarrot with her choice of Patrick Sarsfield as 1 hero, seeing that he was almost alone in setting love of Ireland above loyalty to any alien sovereign, was incorruptible and a leader of military genius; and more deserving than any soldi-- e of his age of Edmund Spenser's. tribute: "I have heard some Great Warriors say, that in all the sex- vices which they had seen in for- eign countries they never saw more comely man than an Irish-remorsefully confessing that he had man, nor one that cometh more. bravely to his charge." Fewer still will be offended at her choice of
Irrigation Scheme.
INDIAN COTTON
POLICY.
LANCASHIRE RESOLUTION OF PROTEST.
BOYCOTT OF BRITISH
GOODS...
WAR DEBTS LIKELY TO BE REOPENED.
GERMAN BANK, GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
Berlin, April 30.-The speech · malayoaterday, by the Governor of the Reichsbank, Dr. Luther, trac- ing the world's economic ills to Blackburn, April 95.-All. bran- | gold-hoarding.and reparation pay- ot the British cottonments, has made a deep impression ches
horehroughout Germany and moreover evoked a loud echo in London and
Paris.
tiado
were.
represented to-day, as 3,000 delegates na sembled
pass
unanimously .a resolution protesting strongly against the Indian Government's economic policies.
The resolution also condemns the boycott against Lancashire goods
All-India National Congress. as adopted and enforced by the
"The welfare of the Indian con- sumer is being ancrificed to the short sighted, selfish policy of n small industrial group wishing to maintain higher price levels than are warranted, the resolution' de clares.
The hostility toward Great Bri. tain and particularly to Lau- cashire, as expressed by the boycott, has been cultivated beyond all economic reason. It has been cul tivated even to the extent of en- couraging the foreign goods in preference to consumption of
British goods," the resolution con- tinued.
The 3,000 representatives of "the cotton trade demanded a cessation
Amongst the French: papers Le Jourant construes Dr. Luther's address as a confirmation of the reports that the Reich in the course of the next few months intends to reopen the reparations issue. In a similar senso, the London Daily **** Express forecasts a German initia tive in an attempt to soljo the en tire war-debts problem, basing its Prophecy, however, not so much en Dr. Luther's speech an on the jour- ney to the United States of Ameri-
Can
Ambassador to Berlin, Mr.
Frederic M. Sackett, who, the Lon- don paper asserts, is carrying with him to Washington a proposal for- mulated by Chancellor Bruening and Dr. Curtius and suggesting. that the American Government en- ter into negotiations with the other Powers to case the Reich's Young
Plan burdens wither directs` or indirectly,
Expres
Still, necording to the Daily German's, chief argu- ment is that sinco the ink has dried
ed career at schrol, and his aulingham were in plain clothes. sequent work no a lecturer and school inspector, Mr. Fenwick said that Myers work in poetry was intermittent. His best-known poem, "St. Paul" was published in 1807. The Dictionary of National Bio, graphy says "His poetic work was known at firs; to comparatively few. but of late years he had a steadily increasing public; and the Corp. pressed fore, the ardent feeling. the vivid and finished expression owded out and parked outside the Macchiavellian Henry Luttrell as foolish, partook in and stayed The local government is providing represented at to-day's meeting
Tho Wai Pei Irrigation Scheme is being pushed forward as rápidly na possible and may be completed of hostility in India toward Great under the Young Plan the slump Britain. They urged the British of world-market prices and the ther the dam across the Ching Government to make strong repre- soaring of the gold prices have au River can be built bofore the river rises. When finished, approximate sentations to the Indinn Govern. tomatically increased the Reich's ly one million mow of land willment for an end of the boycott Allied debt payments by 30 per
obligations. ns woll tho inter. come under irrigation. The schermo against Lancashire gonds in Eugent, wherefore, the Daily Express does not meet the immediate need but will do much to prevent famine
land. They urged the British Gnally reports, the German govern- Wei Valley in the future. in a considerable section of the Government to exert its influence
ment argues in that alleged mem- orandum that it feels perfectly with the Indian Government to justified to appeal to the largest bring about a reduction in the creditor and possessor of the Indian' import duties on textiles.
greatest gold reserves to give a lead to the world and to co-operate Mil-owners and operatives were with the others in its economic re-
covery.
Traffic Inspector Alexander drew his Worship's attention to the fact that defendant had been convicted for dangerous driving both in 1020 and 1930, and last year he had knocked down a pedestrian.
His Worship fined defendant 25 for dangerous driving, and an additional $5 for soliciting.
Alla Ditta was also summoned for obstruction in Chater Road on April 7. His car was one of three limit of the stand which accommo. ned, above all,, the combined im-dates 28 cars. He was fined 95 on aginativeness and sincerty of his his offence.. best work could leave few qualified readers jo doubt of the genuineness of his poetic gift."
The lecturer went on to deal with the conditions chtaining during the period and the progress of science, He continued that before Myers And left school he had learnt the whole of Virgil by heart; it was not surprising then that among his classical Essays there should be-one
Driving Without a Permit.
Mr. C, H. Hoare was summoned
y Traffic Sergent Guild for driv ing private ear Nos. 2834 in Ken- nedy Road without a permit.
Defendant, after pointing out that the number of the ear appear said he was prepared to admit that ing, on the sunmons `was wrong,
he was driving a car.
A line of 810 was imposed.
Case Dismissed.
Mr. F. R. Zimmerit was summon- ed for sounding his born unneceg-
an Virgil. Myers was indignant sarily in Peddler Street shortly at the attacks the critics of theater 7 p., on April 22. day were making upon Virgil.
Surgeant Guild's case was that he In his essay on "Greek Orables" was standing at the junction of the Myers traced the history of Greek who was at the wheel of
rad when he heard the defendant, a car oracular shrines from Homeric cutside the Hong Kong Hotel, times down to 300 A.D., after which rounding his horn twice. As he they ceased. The lecturer said that approached defendant again sound- the result of thes labours was quite ed his horn, on this accnsion three shart--rather more than a hundred Lities. On being questioned, defen- pages in an ordinary ostavo dart told witness that he was try volume, or 23,000 words. To obtaining to attract the attention of some this material, Myers ransacked not friends who were standing at the only latin and Greek classical entrance of Mne's Cafeteria. De- literature, but the whole of post-fondant was unable to produce a classical literature and the Groek | driving licence when requested, and Latin fathers na well for re-
Tefendant denied that he sound- ference to the orneles of Greece.
his for unccessarily. He sound- vid it only twice to clear a crowd of people who were standing in the way of his car he was driving
t out of the stand.
Psychical Research.
the barbarie Lord Galmor and the the villains of the piece, since the former was unquestionably the murderer of Captain Dixie, whose head was used as a kickball, and the latter, the "bad son of a bad father," was univerenlly distrusted and deteated.
Living Portraits.
But all the history is held in solution in the story, as a chemical substance may be dissolved in water, an that the brilliant lucid- ity of the narrative is unclouded. It is amazing that a woman writer should be able to deal so effectively with the strategy and tactics of the complex struggle for the pos Bession of Ireland between the weak
and vacillating James and his just, generous, and resolute opponent. But the reader's attention will be concentrated on the hero, the lead. er at long last of the flight of the "Wild Geese," and of the three women with whom his life is bound up-the light and lavish Olivia Joyce, who takes her revenge for his tolerant contempt, Houor de Burgh, whom he marries, though she is in love with Berwick, and the mystical Ishma O'Donaghoe, last of a royal race, who represents the Erin of his exultations and agonies. Hideous is the fate pre- pared for this solitary Deirdre by those who plot against him. We are made familiar with all the per- stages of two stricken years-the broken James, William, who visits Sarafleld in disguise, Tyrconnel, Berwick, Albemarle, the French Commanders, Galloping O'Hagan, the leader of rapparees, and all the rent. We endure the pathos and the
Dancing on the Sabbath. Captain Pasley, however, though I would defend himmelf, never ailenced the reproaches of consci- ence. We find him on one occasion
danced on board ship on a Sunday. "There was in the Evening a Dance," he writes, "which
(though Sunday) being Old and till past Midnight." At another time, after two of his men havo been accidentally blown to pieces. hise opse of his sinfulness is so overwhelming that he longs to re tire from the service on the ground that "a Sea Life is a bad prepara- tion for a future state,
The Plague of Scarry. Much of Captain Pasley's busi- ness consisted in ascorting mor- chant-ships to England during the war with America and France, and his diaries bring home to us the tedium, as well as the perils of the work, with men, dying in batches from scurvy, with the merchant- ships disobeying orders, and with cheats waiting to rob the suitor at every port of coll.
Those who go to the diaries ex- peeting vivid narratives of sen- fights will be disappointed. It is the frankness with which Pasley express his lies and, dislikes, hir prejudices about men and things, that is the salt of the book. One likes him best at such a mo- ment au that when, having been enthusiastically kissed by French prisoners, he jota duwn in his diary: "Nosty Dog-I hate a Man's Kiss."
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DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN BANKING TERMS.
Mr. Herbert Scott's dictionary of "English, French and Gorman. Banking Tering" has been revised and considerably enlarged in n third edition which is now publish-
Mr. J. Kotewall said Mr. Zim mern borrowed his car to také friends home from the pictures. He Himself with two other friendspang, the very lacrimne rerum, fed (Effingham Wilson, 10s.). Mir, were standing under the vernadal
The lecturer sketched at length the part which. Myers took in the investigation of strange phenomena, In 1662 he was one of the small group of men who founded the Society for Psychical Research, whose object was to conduct sys tematic investigation of those al- at the fout of the flight of steps seure phenomena, hauntings and leading into the Cafeteria. He apparitions, hypnotism, trance
could not say if there were people utterance, towards which the
the rond in the way of the enr, titude of the ordinary person was buit pointed out that the road must either frank disbelief or unrenson-have been crowded at that time ing oredulity.
when people were coming away In conclusion the lecturer said | from the pictures.
F
tint "Human Personality" (a.work The summons was dismissed.
of Myers) was undoubtedly one of
the great books of the last century.
It was a courageous attempt to reduco to some sort of order à mass of obscure and perplexing pheno- menn, and in this it was successful, If it was not equally quccessful in providing these phenomena with a satisfactory explanation it was at Icast anccessful in indicating the general direction in which auch explanation must be sought.
Mrs. Bouthorn, Welcomed. At the close of the lecture, Siri William Hornell.said that it was the lust meeting of the season, and ho would like to say how glad the members and officers were to 800 Mrs. Southorn back in Hong Kong. It was the intention of the Associa tion to keep the lectures going at all costs, and he proposed a bearty yota of thanks to Mr. Fenwick for his very instructive papor.
Sir William also moved a vote of thanks to Dean Swann for the. loan of the Cathedral Hall for the mootings of the Association, which was also: endorsed by the large) gathering,
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ACR505.
AN ADMIRAL'S LANGUAGE. "PRIVATE SEA JOURNALS, 1778-1789
frustrated lives, and, as in "The Scott arranges phrases and corres- Racklitz," watch the heavy footstepspondence, in parallel dictionary of inexorable Nemesia, trending form, and makes his work of great down bright and valiant spirits. assistance to those with a knowledge It is a tragical masterpiece which of English, French, or German, faithfully reveals an age that has in dealing with major difficulties been, and purges the soul of little by the inclusion of the less obvious phrases and definitions. To thir end, also, the subject-matter 'is ar- ranged alphabetically under Koy- words, and the system adopted for indexing and cross-indexing en Kept by Admiral Sir Thomas aures rapid reference in any of the Pasley, Bart. Edited "by Rod-given languages. nay M.S. Pasley, Dent, 108. "A pepys of the 'sea servico such, we are told, was Thomas Pasley, who kept these diaries. It 12 an exaggeration, since Pepys confessed to his diary a thousand secrets that he would not have con- fened to his fellow-men, wherons Thomas Pastoy does not seem to have had any secrets to confess.
At the same time he undoubtedly interests us as a character, and, the diaries, kopt while he was the mid-fationa dleaged captain of a frigate dur, ing the war with the American co- lonies, gives us, not a bald record of events, but the portrait of a man.
He was, we gather, a simple hearted sailor, qually given to piety and profanity. He was clear- ly as peppery as he was corpulent, and he did not conceal his opinion that most of the inhabitants of the earth, except the English, 'were "daraned rasco's," and that many of the English were "damned ras cais," too.
AN HEIR OF GRACE;
and
THE STRANGE YOUNG MAN," By
Louise Gerard.
Mills Boon. 75. Ed.
The strange young man was strangely worried, strangely well- mannered, and strangely wealthy. He was also a stranger to his re-
Hi, occupation stranges frustrating & gang" of blackmailers.
wha
The author takes us to Bangkok, Pekin and Hawaii, but this story of the vicissitudos of the successor to an ancestral title remains rather too thin and hairy. But Miss Gerard, excites us, by tales of
obrne, or death in the crater of a volcano, and of a mysterious man appropriately called De Ath. Her numerous' and pulsatingly expect ant: readers may be assured that this is Miss Gerard at her, most typical:
The China International Famine Relief Commission are co-operating scheme, which is costing $1,000,000. with the local government in this
half the funds.
The scheme was mooted years ago, but owing to the unwilling ness of the provincial government at that time to co-operate it was nover put through. Had it been accomplished ten years ago, when the C. I. F. R. C. offered to loan $370,000, Shensi would have been saved untold sufforing during these (Continued on next Column.)
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throu terrible years of famine. It speaks well for the present Chair, nan, Yang Hu-chen, that he has shown his practical sympathy with the suffering people by his willing ness to cooperato in this scheme at a time when the provincial fin- ances were never at a lower ebb.
While these utterances of the London paper must be regarded as certain circles in Great Britain, significant of the expectations of
it must be noted that so for it has not been possible to get here either.
denial or a confirmation of the contents and even of the netual existence of such a memorandum of which the London papers claim to know the contents.
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